The New York Times: The app we used was not TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts, the current leaders of short-form video. It was Sora, a smartphone app made by OpenAI that lets people create such videos entirely from artificial intelligence. Sora’s underlying technology debuted last year, but its latest version — which is faster and more powerful and can incorporate your likeness if you upload images of your face — was released on an invitation-only basis this week.
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I’m glad that the article does address the negative aspects of this rapidly advancing technology. Sora AI terrifies me, angers me, and is extremely unnerving to me and many others. It’s hilarious, and honestly, I shouldn’t be surprised that their social media platform is just as unoriginal and uninspired as the AI slop it generates. It seems like some people weren’t paying attention in school when it was hammered over everyone’s heads that plagiarism and overall theft are bad. Because that's what AI is. It isn’t creative; it’s theft of other people’s creativity. Your stupid video of a grandma crashing through a glass bridge with a boulder is not only going to cost people brain cells (which is the last thing we need right now; there are already enough morons in the world), but it isn’t worth the water it's wasting and the environmental damage it's causing. This technology will cost lives, it already has in many ways, with people even going so far as to bring harm to themselves because a chatbot told them to. More people will lose their jobs and their lives, and our world will suffer if AI isn’t regulated.
I honestly think that the best that will come from this app are stupid, unfunny memes. There’s just no way that this will benefit us in the long run. I hate that most social media today is designed to actually separate us from real people. Most of the videos on YouTube shorts these days are AI generated, and a lot of the comments are AI, too. It’s getting harder to find high-quality, real creators to watch. On top of that, the short-form content is already bad enough for our social skills. Now that people can just make everything with AI, nothing will ever feel special anymore. Real people doing real things will be less impressive to us as we get more and more normalized to this type of content. I don’t believe for a second what the leaders of the AI companies said in this interview; I firmly believe that all this is designed to do is get views from people and make ad revenue, and nothing else.
The sora platform is very very interesting to me. I do believe that it can be used for good, such as using it for make very simple VMD effects (such as a vibration effect for a time turner), but shouldn’t be used for much more then that, especially movies. It doesn’t show the emotion behind movies, everything it says is very flat, so thats a no, it shouldn’t be used for musicals because again, no emotion, maybe some tiktoks, but still thats a weird area. I don’t believe this is a threat to us, yet, you can still tell it apart. People do need to learn how to be good humans tho, as you see people abusing it to make fake MLK videos of him saying stupid things, slandering his name and what he did for his lifetime. I do believe during the 2028 election it’s going to be very interesting to see how it’s used. Hell, Trump is already in love with it, making himself and the leader of Project 2025 the grim reaper in a music video (that SNL did an awesome job of making fun of, but that’s besides the point). I do believe that certain political folks are going to use it for bad, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Artificial intelligence is a tremendous technological achievement. However, I am glad the article addressed the dangers of the technology to a certain extent, and just how disturbing it is. With all of the talk of AI in the tech industry today, not very many people seem to care about or address the issues brought about by this advancement. The level of realism is quite concerning for me. The fact that it can generate a somewhat convincing video of anyone doing something is really quite scary. Today’s media landscape is already starting to drown in misinformation from bad actors, but it would get so much worse if news companies began to synthesize false evidence and false headlines. Truth is already beginning to vanish on social media, and this will only accelerate that effect. The other thing with the popularity of AI slop is replacement of human filmmaking. This is why blocking it out of the artistic industries is so critical, as if we don’t, the arts would greatly suffer.
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