Sora: The Dawn of an Era in AI Generated Videos

Sora has the potential to streamline content creation processes and unlock new creative possibilities. I can imagine people using it for interesting ideas like ad videos, illustrations, cinematic films from stories as prompts, and many more things that we may not even think of at this time.

This new AI model is bound to disrupt aspects of the video industry, just as the other models did to the writing and art industries, like ChatGPT-3 and DALL-E. There are implications for this new technology and the content it will create, such as video content creators feeling threatened in their jobs and reacting.

Collaboration and Feedback

Sora is not yet publicly available. "Sora is becoming available to red teamers to assess critical areas for harm or risks. We are also granting access to a number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gain feedback on how to advance the model to be most helpful for creative professionals." OpenAI says in their release.

This is important for OpenAI to do for fine-tuning their new model and for ensuring that it is safe to release to the public. It's a powerful tool going into the hands of just about anybody.

Sora Is Not Perfect Yet

As much as the videos Sora generates look realistic, they are not all that perfect. If one looks closely, they'll find certain things that aren't exactly real or possible. And, as well, the model struggles to handle certain details.

The model faces challenges with properly handling complex scenes and understanding causality—such as accurately simulating the physics of a scene. For example, it once generated a video of a person running on a threadmill but facing the wrong direction.