Whether you have used Sora or not, you are probably inadvertently familiar with it. Used to make short AI-generated videos that can vary in quality, most of those new, "Viral," Ring videos you see lately are AI digital fakery (the faux-grainy look makes it easier to overlook legit glitches in the images). Sora is basically a form of TikTok where all the videos are AI...so Hell, it is one of the circles of Hell. In all seriousness, I've fiddled with the app, and it can at times, be creepy with how it essentially generates occasionally realistic yet still totally fake clips. Disney even had a 1 billion dollar deal to partner with Sora (perhaps to avoid having their IPs outright stolen and get some money) and use a bunch of their characters in AI videos. However, OpenAI (the parent company who are also behind ChatGPT) announced Tuesday that they were going to shut down Sora very soon. Disney then pulled out of any possible deal (they possibly could have killed the deal in secret first, and that is why Sora fell apart--it isn't yet clear), and now you'll have to imagine the weird stuff you could've prompted the app to make.
Yes, you could have theoretically enjoyed trying to find a way around filters for questionable content and generated your own, "Simba brutally mauls Prince Eric" animation. That will have to remain a pipe dream, however, along with Oalf fathering a child with any Disney Princesses. This is probably for the best, as while AI tech can potentially be handy for adding up random numbers or looking up the name of, "That one high-school movie, with the funny guy in it too," the AI-generated videos made in Sora were eerie and already being used to fool people or engage in questionable, "Pranks." I don't know about you, but fake security camera footage showing me stealing a pound of liverwurst could be an issue if folks fail to notice how rubbery I appear. This isn't to say there is a lack of other AI video programs that will rush to fill the space, but Sora was the one getting lots of headlines during these months it was in operation. Soon it will be gone, however, and we won't be able to say, "Make me a video of a giant-sized baby being interviewed by a helicopter with a microphone about his favorite snack." Society may never recover. In all seriousness, what is next with OpenAI? Are they going to try and do some other video generation tech all within one big, "ChatGPT Video," program? Could we be ending one vaguely troubling dream only to be about to dive into the real nightmare? We don't know, and that's honestly a bit scary.
Oh, the movie was, "Clueless," and that funny guy was Paul Rudd. Good stuff.
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