OpenAI Unveils New AI That Generates Alarmingly Realistic Videos
• OpenAI unveiled Sora, a new AI model that can generate 1-minute videos from text prompts, showing examples like a turtle riding a bike and dogs podcasting.
• Sora demonstrates impressive visual details, but can still struggle with complex physics and spatial relationships, sometimes generating nonsensical or disappearing objects.
• As deepfakes become more advanced, ethical concerns arise around impersonation, disinformation, and erosion of human jobs. The FTC proposed rules making AI impersonation illegal.
• OpenAI plans safety measures like metadata tagging generated videos and collaborating with experts, but says risks still exist in how the tech could be misused.
• Example prompts showed highly realistic scenes like woolly mammoths in a snowy landscape, raising worries average internet users may not be able to reliably detect AI-generated video.