OpenAI's New Text-to-Video AI Raises Concerns About Potential for Misuse
• Sora is OpenAI's new text-to-video AI that can create realistic videos from text prompts, concerning researchers about potential misuse • These text-to-video AIs could spread misinformation, especially around elections, through fake videos and audio • Possible solutions include watermarks, but these may not prevent spread of fakes • Benefits could include visualizing complex ideas for lay audiences and helping sort huge datasets • Poses broad societal issues like evaluating content reliability and democratizing media creation