A Sight for Sora Eyes
Sora may not be the first AI video generator, but early glimpses suggest that it has raised the bar for what such tools can achieve. Some of the initial impressions have been very positive.
TechRadar, for example, described the results it has seen as “so good it’s made me want to stump up $200 for OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pro tier” and that “it’s changed everything,” while ‘AI Educator’ Min Choi posted on X that the “video quality looks insane.”
OpenAI has still been careful to downplay Sora’s capabilities, however. It has many limitations, the company says, and “often generates unrealistic physics and struggles with complex actions over long durations.”
“We hope this early version of Sora will enable people everywhere to explore new forms of creativity, tell their stories, and push the boundaries of what’s possible with video storytelling.” – OpenAI
And it’s inevitable that Sora’s full release it will only exacerbate the conversations and debates about the intellectual property rights of professionals, with a group of affronted artists leaking Sora in November in protest of their unpaid labor.
