For a while, put aside all your worries and fears about the new Sora 2 app. Don't think about potential copyright issues, legal issues, or the negative effects of surreal fake videos.
ssshhh, i Please don't I would like to think about one of them.
Instead, let's talk about how Sora 2 is the most enjoyable online in at least three weeks. I'm playing with Openai's new video tool and it's great.
Here's what makes Sora 2 more fun than other AI video tools: This makes it easy to create videos that will appear with you and your friends. In theory, that sounds simple, but in reality it's an interesting secret element we know now and is important for a good AI slop: you!
To create AI videos in SORA 2, you need to upload a short sample video of your own face. You can then start generating videos with your portrait based on prompts such as “@katienotopoulos is on a jet ski chased by a shark.” You can also choose whether or not you want others to use your portrait. (If you allow this, you can choose whether a friend or someone can use your face.)
This means, for example, you can make a video of your friend in the getaway car of you and your friend, after you have taken away the pet store, and the car is full of cats. Or interviewing Sam Altman for a podcast. Or you and your colleagues are working in the office, then Sasquatch comes in and scares you.
Or maybe you and your colleagues are advertising for Dunkin (by the way, we're not).
You can also use it to troll your friends, like in this video where a colleague admits not to return a shopping cart (as far as I know, this is not true).
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Max Read wrote back in the era of Will Smith-Eating-Spaghetti that AI is most commonly used as a tool for stupid jokes, or “something like a stunning masterpiece that can be produced when combining cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology with advanced human stupidity.” I agree! !
Sora 2 was still only an invitation as of Wednesday, and when I first signed up, I couldn't find any other friends and got stuck just watching the general slop feed, which is almost all Sam Altman's video.
Only Openai employees are bold enough to open themselves up to make the likeness available, so Altman and a few other lesser known employees were the suggested people who could make the video first. I think it's getting old soon, laughing a bit on a few videos of Sam Altman doing things like working for McDonald's and getting arrested.
Thankfully, a few others I knew immediately joined in and I started making videos with them. To be fair, others were work colleagues or other high-tech journalists who were involved in testing it. I don't think many of my ordinary friends are willing to join this app immediately, for obvious “bad/bad” reasons that we don't discuss.
The point is that it was a brilliant joy! It's stupid and stupid. It's funny to watch videos of your face and friends doing something strange and creepy. I couldn't get enough!
This is completely different from Vibes, an AI video feed that was launched last week by META. The atmosphere feels pointless – just scroll through the slops that are fun but not funny. There were a lot of video clips of what seemed interesting, like “the dog driving a car.” it's not It's really interesting.
It was me who lacked the atmosphere! My face, my friend's face – it's what I want to make a video, not a random slop.
“As long as people can be part of their friends, you know people may not care about AI slops,” said Alex Heath of the source newsletter.
The big question is whether you find this surprisingly interesting, for example, three days later. Honestly… who knows? I'm a bit skeptical. This will be fun and enjoyable in the long run.
And once the novelty disappears, it probably exists as a somewhat creepy AI slop tool. Ah, well.
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