www.hollywoodreporter.com: “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.”
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I am generally someone who is pretty pessimistic about AI, so I am perfectly happy to see this news. I have a strong personal belief that the purpose of us developing technology is to make people’s lives better, and to take away the tasks that Human’s do not want to do, like repetitive actions in a factory. In my view, most modern AI platforms are taking away the intellectual and creative tasks that many people enjoy doing, while forcing humans to do menial tasks in the physical world. I think that AI video creation from the likes of Sora is a great example of trying to replace human creatives with a cheaper AI system, which is just stealing the work of the creatives who originally created the intellectual property, and then putting them out of business for future development. I am very curious to hear what happens in this space over the next couple of months and years, and see if this is just a blip and AI continues to grow, or if this is really the beginning of a bubble bursting.
I would be lying I said that I wasn’t preying on sora’s downfall so I’m really happy to hear this news. While the open ai company does not care about the livelihood of artists or the integrity of creativity they do care about their profit, ai video creation is super expensive and if they’re losing money it makes sense that they would shut the app down and create a new plan. I am of the opinion that Disney never should of took part in this deal to being in with, so I think this can be a good thing however it looks like they’re still planning on putting their fingers in the ai generation pie, Disney even trying this is wrong to me since they are one of the pillars of modern animation them taking part of this sets a bad precedence for everything else and I hope they backlash they are receiving makes them reconsider their future plans
I’m generally not very optimistic about AI and its impacts on the world, and this really seems like an absolute win to me. The fact that Sora has been shut down so early in its anticipated lifespan really speaks volumes to the backlash against it. While I can’t imagine that’s the only reason the platform was shut down, I have a feeling that it played a role. The other thing that indicates Sora was supposed to live for far longer than it did was the billion-dollar deal OpenAI signed with Disney earlier this year to license their characters on the platform. I wonder if this is the beginning of the end in some ways for widely used generative AI, as such a major platform shutting down could be a warning sign of things to come. Generative AI isn’t really doing anything positive, and maybe some of the integration we’ve seen over the past four or so years will start to reverse.
Fantastic news! I am so incredibly angry about AI video generation and deepfakes in general. I genuinely believe that it should be illegal to replicate others’ images (or voices for that matter) in any manner that could be even remotely convincing. One of the problems Sora faced when it initially launched, as the article mentions, is that Hollywood studios and talent were upset about known actors and IP being used by the app. While I’m glad that this was a concern that was raised, it does highlight the fact that for the average person whose likeness winds up in these databases (or the average artist whose work is stolen), there is far less legal recourse than there is for these A-list actors or film companies. It is way too easy for horrible things to happen with this technology out in the wild and I can see literally no good reason to not simply outlaw it. We can live without this stuff, it’s not going to cure any diseases or save anyone’s life.
I think I am someone who supports AI, I see it having so many useful applications such as research and just daily task solving like having it type up useless emails so you can focus on your major tasks, but I never could get behind Sora. People were, well, people. They were idiots on this platform, making constant sexual, racist, and just inappropriate content on it. The most useful video it’s made is either trumps propaganda or fruit island. This isn’t helping us cure cancer, and resources should not be going towards that. I do feel like a more restrictive version goes against my ethics as it would really only be useful to make concept art for artists, which I really do not agree with. Overall, I don’t think sora had many benefits for the cost they’re dumping into it, both to make it, train it, then maintain it. It’s a high cost with low benefit situation.
The first and final thought I had while reading this article was THANK. GOD. I am slightly surprised that the shutting down of Sora comes now, as though it has faced immense and well-deserved backlash, the decision seems sudden. This is further backe by the fact that Disney as a company was involved in this decision as unfortunately despite the public backlash towards generative AI applications such as Sora, only major corporations like Disney have power and influence when it comes to having a say in Sora’s shut down. Though I am happy overall about Sora’s shutdown, I am incredibly wary of what this entails for the future of generative AI with the role businesses and corporations have played in investing and promoting Sora then suddenly being on board with its shutdown. There are major influential lawsuits to consider against Sora, but I worry that this shutdown isn’t a goodbye to generative AI videos like Sora, but simply a shift in focus to implementing it in other more effective ways.
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