Dec. 14 (UPI) — OpenAI has launched Sora, a new video tool powered by artificial intelligence technology that has generated controversy in recent months.
The Sora Turbo product, available since Monday, makes it much easier and faster for users to generate high-definition videos lasting up to 20 seconds.
OpenAI said it is blocking content that is illegal or otherwise highly controversial, such as child sexual abuse materials and sexual deepfakes.
“We are being lured into art-washing to tell the world that Sora is a useful tool for artists,” the artists had said.
OpenAI in February announced the roll-out of the text-to-video Sora app as a follow-up to its ChatGPT chatbot tool for generating textual content.
Dec. 14 (UPI) — OpenAI has introduced Sora, a new artificial intelligence-powered video tool that has caused a stir in recent months.
With the release of the Sora Turbo product on Monday, users can now create 20-second HD videos much more quickly and easily.
In an online statement, OpenAI stated, “We’re introducing our video generation technology now to give society time to explore its possibilities and co-develop norms and safeguards that ensure it’s used responsibly as the field advances.”.
It is our hope that this early version of Sora will allow people all over the world to express their stories, experiment with new creative expressions, and push the limits of video storytelling techniques. “.
The A is available to users. Me. -powered technology to extend, remix, blend, or create new content from text and integrate pre-existing digital information.
Two community feeds offer fresh and constantly updated content, and a storyboard tool lets users manage the results for each frame while adding text, photos, or videos.
According to OpenAI, it is removing content that is illegal or otherwise very contentious, like sexual deepfakes and materials about child sexual abuse.
Still, the app has faced criticism long before it was released to the public with some experts alarmed about how A. Me. -generated video and others who are worried about such legal matters as copyright.
In an open letter to OpenAI, twenty artists who had early access to the Sora app in November expressed their disapproval of the app and charged the tech company with exploiting artists to make the app seem more popular with the world’s artist community.
“Artists are not your unpaid RandD,” they declared. “We are not your PR puppets, training data, validation tokens, or free bug testers. “,”.
The open letter was addressed by the artists to “A. Me. “corporate overlords,” along with a leaked Sora code. The company released the product to the general public a few weeks later, perhaps as a result of that leak.
In order to convince the world that Sora is a helpful tool for artists, the artists had claimed that “we are being lured into art-washing.”.
As a sequel to its ChatGPT chatbot tool for creating textual content, OpenAI announced in February that the text-to-video Sora app would be released.
The development team for the Sora app, which is meant to compete with Meta’s Make-a-Video tool—which Facebook’s parent company previewed in a 2022 white paper but appears to have not yet been made available to the general public—will include artists, according to Sora.
At the time, UPI stated that other businesses would probably invest more in videos produced by A as a result of Meta’s model’s success. Me.
