"OpenAI has released a new smartphone app - currently invite-only - designed to rival TikTok with an infinite barrage of AI slop. The app accompanies the company's latest text-to-video and audio AI generator, Sora 2, which it claims is "more physically accurate, realistic, and more controllable than prior systems." A two-minute clip celebrating the announcement was met with predominantly negative reactions, with netizens dismissing it as "unsettling" and "soulless.""
"Ironically, OpenAI's own Sora developer, Gabriel Petersson, demonstrated how easy it was to generate CCTV footage of anyone - in this case, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman - "stealing [graphics cards] at Target." The clip shows Altman getting caught by a nearby security guard after trying to walk out of a store with a GPU box - a gag meant to poke fun at the company's frantic multibillion-dollar bids to secure AI hardware."
OpenAI released an invite-only smartphone app tied to Sora 2, a text-to-video and audio AI generator claimed to be more physically accurate, realistic, and controllable. The announcement clip provoked predominantly negative reactions, with viewers labeling the output "unsettling" and "soulless." An internal demonstration showed how easily the tool can create photorealistic CCTV footage, including a fabricated clip of CEO Sam Altman appearing to steal GPUs, illustrating how individuals could be framed. Observers described such demonstrations as tone-deaf given the real-world risks of impersonation and misuse. Demand for specialized AI hardware remains intense, reflected by Nvidia's $100 billion partnership with OpenAI.
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