We Tested OpenAI’s Sora 2 AI-Video App to Find Out Why Hollywood Is Worried

OpenAI’s Sora used to make deepfake AI videos of dead celebrities, outraging their families

Family members of dead celebrities including Robin Willians and George Carlin are crying foul over AI-generated videos of their loved ones appearing on OpenAI’s new app, Sora.  OpenAI’s new video generation app is just a few weeks old, but it rapidly rocketed to the top of the U.S. Apple App Store within days of its release. And perhaps as rapidly, experts and creators raised copyright concerns around Sora, as the app appeared to let users creat…

AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s new tool lets users make realistic AI videos of dead public figures like Kobe Bryant and Michael Jackson. Many have responded with crude and racist memes.

Hollywood has no idea what to do about AI

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week. This week, I got an up-close look at how far apart Silicon Valley and Hollywood are on what to do about AI. First, at OpenAI DevDay, Sam Altman presented the new Sora app as a gift to content creators. If anything, he suggested, OpenAI was being too censorious by not allowing people to make even more ki…

OpenAI’s New Sora App Lets Users Generate AI Videos—And Star in Them

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

We tested OpenAI’s Sora 2 AI-video app to find out why Hollywood is worried

The launch of OpenAI’s Sora 2 text-to-video generation kicked off another round of anxiety among intellectual property holders in the U.S. Major Hollywood studios objected to OpenAI’s copyright policies, leading to changes in how the model handles prompts for certain sensitive categories of AI-generated content. CNBC’s Julia Boorstin tested Sora 2 to find out what the new model is capable of.