"Having spent a week on Sora 2, I've been closely watching its main public feed. I'm sorry to report that I'm seeing some very bad signs on OpenAI's new social video app. It's not just the potential copyright violations or the misinformation, but something even more corrosive to a burgeoning social platform: Sora 2 seems to be overrun with teenage boys."
"Let's start where things start to get icky: Sora doesn't allow you to make videos of other living people unless those people give you permission. (I had lots of fun doing that with my friends last week.) But it'll let you use dead celebrities - and some of those videos are not-so-fun for their living relatives. Mr. Rogers, Tupac Shakur, and even Martin Luther King Jr. are featured frequently, saying out-of-character or silly things. ( King's daughter, as well as Robin Williams' daughter, has asked people to stop doing this.)"
"As individual posts, these are juvenile - but when you see these over and over and over, a vibe starts to form: This is a place for humor, which enjoys taking cheap shots at people's likenesses, often in offensive ways. But that's not even really where the big headaches could come for ChatGPT maker OpenAI. There are also just tons and tons of potential trust-and-safety and content-moderation nightmares."
Sora 2's Latest feed shows a disproportionate number of teenage boys and very few women, indicating a gender imbalance that threatens platform health. The app restricts videos of living people without permission but allows portrayals of deceased celebrities, leading to frequent out-of-character, offensive, or distressing clips. Repeated juvenile content fosters a culture of cheap humor targeting likenesses. The prevalence of potential copyright violations, misinformation, and exploitation of deceased figures creates serious trust-and-safety challenges. Content moderation at scale will be difficult for OpenAI, raising legal, reputational, and safety concerns.
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