back to article OpenAI's Sora lets ChatGPT subscribers churn out janky text-generated videos

OpenAI has put its video generation tool, Sora, into the hands of ChatGPT Plus and Pro users. Sora will be familiar to anyone who has fed text into an AI to receive an image. Once magical, the technology has rapidly become ubiquitous. Earlier this year, OpenAI showed off Sora, which took it a step further with short videos …

  1. pip25
    FAIL

    MVP

    So OpenAI's release criteria for Sora, a model for generating moving pictures, did not include, uh... the thing being able to handle movement? How curious.

    1. doublelayer Silver badge

      Re: MVP

      You expect that they would have a quality standard on one of their products? I'm sure they're trying to fix this, but for something that will only be used as a toy, it really can't be the top thing on their priority list. I'm sure others are working on generative video systems that can do a better job, but those will be aiming their products at things like animation studios which can afford to put a lot of effort into verifying and regenerating until they get something that they accept because they already do that and more for manual processes. OpenAI, on the other hand, is trying to sell this to individuals who don't have as good a reason to use the tool and likely not the willingness to use it in the ways necessary to repair the effects of a brute force training process.

  2. Mentat74
    Devil

    20 second video's...

    I wonder what pratical use-case there would be for short video's like that...

    Commercials maybe ? They're full of crap anyways...

    1. Ashentaine

      Re: 20 second video's...

      Youtube Shorts are about 20-30 seconds long and generate a lot of views thanks to their autoplay-when-scrolled nature, and I can imagine all those garbage channels that are already crapping out AI-voice narrated drivel by the bucketload will be loving this to get more traffic their way.

  3. Pete 2 Silver badge

    Next year's model

    > spotting something generated by AI is relatively easy

    But it won't always be like that. Early B&W movies were shaky, of varying speeds and without sound. But that all changed as the tech. improved.

    So it will be with AI generated content.

    We all know that what we read in the printed (mainstream) news media is of dubious origin, questionable honesty and intended as much to persuade as to inform us. Until now we have tended to believe photos as evidence of an actual event and film clips as being incontrovertible, just because we have always thought they were too difficult to fake.

    We now know that cannot be relied upon, either.

    1. IGotOut Silver badge

      Re: Next year's model

      No it won't.

      The amount of power and money required to generate even the most shitty video, can banged out by a half competent amateur in a few hours with a standard VFX package.

      It's shit, and will always be shit. They are running out if training material to steal and now it's ingesting AI generated slop.

      AI is just another Metaverse / Bitcoin bullshit hype machine

      Once the investors realise they are not getting any money back, they will pull out.

      See how much money they are burning through, then compare that to revenue. It's unsustainable.

      1. doublelayer Silver badge

        Re: Next year's model

        They have seen lots of gains by throwing more GPUs at the problem. I expect that their model will get a little better. Good enough that anyone can make unimpeachable video on a whim, no. Make something that doesn't get as many obvious things wrong, yes. They have money to burn to do that for at least a little longer. If they were thinking this through logically, they wouldn't have started this in the first place, so I doubt they'll choose to give up just because their product isn't very good. They won't be in a position to improve it quickly, but they can make some slow progress.

        1. IGotOut Silver badge

          Re: Next year's model

          Look how many billions of dollars was thrown and the Metaverse and its associated ilk.

          Is that still going strong? Or was it quietly dumped?

          ChatGPT is kept alive by investors and freebies of Microsoft (server credits). MS sees ChatGPT as competition (there words not mine. So when the investors stop funding the money pit, or when the MS freebies run out, then what?

          Where is the money coming from?

          It'll quietly get absorbed by MS (they pretty much own the IP) and it'll die

          With that dead, those dependent on it will either have to pay more money, or die.

          Once that's gone, the others will quietly wind down the hype and it'll die a slow death. After all, this is Google we are talking about.

          And where is "Apple Intelligence"? /crickets.

      2. Pete 2 Silver badge

        Re: Next year's model

        Did you reply to the wrong comment?

        I am sure that I was responding to the author's point about AI video being easy to spot. Which it is now, but won't be in the future. And effect that will have on the verisimilitude of news.

        Your reply just seems like a run'o'the mill comment about all these new technologies. Some of which will succeed and others fail.

  4. IGotOut Silver badge

    Congratulations.

    In spending Tens of Billions of Dollars creating something your nephew could do with Unreal Engine in a weekend.

    1. Sk72

      Re: Congratulations.

      Uh, no. Difference is you can just describe your scene and it spits it out. 5 mins and you have it

  5. Bebu sa Ware
    Windows

    Twelve Days of AI

    Would be interesting (or revolting) to have Sora animate some of lyrics from the twelve days of Christmas viz

    six geese a-laying

    seven swans a-swimming

    eight maids a-milking

    nine ladies dancing

    ten lords a-leaping

    eleven pipers piping

    twelve drummers drumming

    With "unrealistic physics and struggling with complex actions" I am not sure that the Sora version of eight maids a-milking wouldn't require a strong stomach.

    If AI (further) enshittifies movie production, live theatre might enjoy a renaissance. CGI didn't put Wallace and Gromit out of business and I can't see Ghibli embracing this excremental technology.

    1. Zippy´s Sausage Factory
      Joke

      Re: Twelve Days of AI

      I am not sure that the Sora version of eight maids a-milking wouldn't require a strong stomach.

      The dancing, leaping and swimming might be amusing, although the six geese a-laying may be illegal in some jurisdictions.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        Re: Twelve Days of AI

        The woman who appears briefly at 1:07-1:11, whose legs cross over while walking, is particularly disturbing.

  6. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
    Coat

    Apart from the giraffe's legs ...

    the rhinoceros shown a bit earlier in the video seems to be filled with helium. This makes me wonder what sound a rhino would make if it inhaled helium.

    (and it's not even Friday yet, I had better be going)

  7. Sk72

    Sora works surprisingly well. Even janky movement can be remedied using the it's tools as you can mark and regenerate the sections that aren't right. A lot of scenes are almost impossible to tell from commercially made film. A little know.n amazing feature is you can make videos from existing still frames or existing videos. It does really well with that.

    Science fiction stuff.

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