OpenAI launched its latest video generator app Sora on September 30, described as being "more physically accurate, realistic, and more controllable" than ever before.
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Globally, social media enthusiasts might have observed an increase in AI-crafted videos populating their timelines recently. Experts caution that this trend might deter some users from engaging with these platforms.

On September 30, OpenAI unveiled its newest video generation tool, Sora, touting it as more “physically accurate, realistic, and controllable” than any previous versions.

“Sora 2 can achieve feats that were extraordinarily challenging, if not downright impossible, for older video generation models,” stated OpenAI.

OpenAI launched its latest video generator app Sora on September 30, described as being "more physically accurate, realistic, and more controllable" than ever before.
Social media users around the world may have noticed a surge of AI-generated videos on their feeds in the past few weeks. (Instagram)

Currently, Sora is accessible, but it’s being offered on an invite-only basis until the company expands access to all users.

Already, numerous deepfakes have surfaced, showcasing clips like newborns dashing from hospitals, animals soaring into tornadoes, and elderly women being flipped over, among the most popular.

These creations also feature prominent figures such as the late Queen Elizabeth II, Michael Jackson, and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Melbourne University Centre for AI and Digital Ethics Deputy Director Marc Cheong said these videos were a progression of the “AI slop”, what he describes as low-quality content that clogs up people’s feeds, being created out of OpenAI’s Dall-E program last year.

“Like Jesus Christ with a shrimp on the beach or something along the lines in an impossible image,” he said.

An AI-generated image of Jesus Christ with a shrimp.
An AI-generated image of Jesus Christ with a shrimp. (X)

Sora videos can be a little tricky to tell apart at first glance, particularly if they depict more realistic scenarios.

But there is an app-identifying watermark that is included in all the videos. 

Cheong added that users can count the number of fingers on a hand or check if timestamps actually change to decipher which videos have been generated by AI.

“Basically, if something is too good to be true, it’s important to just treat it with a healthy dose of scepticism and just look into it a bit more,” he said.

Sam Altman, co-founder and chief executive of OpenAI.
Sam Altman, co-founder and chief executive of OpenAI. (AP)

Cheong said he was not surprised by how realistic the videos were, but rather that it was available to use by the general public.

And some of the Sora deepfakes have already landed OpenAI in trouble. 

Sora users have targeted civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, with some of the videos showing him fighting fellow crusader Malcolm X, making his famous “I have a dream” speech with some obvious changes and in reportedly racist depictions.

These have caused concern with his estate, which requested OpenAI address the use of his likeness.

OpenAI acknowledged there had been “disrespectful” depictions and paused images of King late last week as it “strengthens guardrails for historical figures”.

“While there are strong free speech interests in depicting historical figures, OpenAI believes public figures and their families should ultimately have control over how their likeness is used,” the company said.

“Authorised representatives or estate owners can request that their likeness not be used in Sora cameos.”

Zelda Williams, the daughter of Robbie Williams, was also forced to make a public plea for users to stop sending her deepfakes of the late comedian and actor.

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Zelda Williams and Robin Williams in 2005. (Patrick McMullan via Getty Image)

“To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to ‘this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that’s enough’, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening,” she wrote in an Instagram story.

“You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else’s throat hoping they’ll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.”

King’s daughter Bernice followed with her own public plea: “I concur concerning my father. Please stop.”

With a number of deepfakes being troll content, particularly of a known figure, Cheong said the videos posed an issue to a deceased person’s right of reply and consent and autonomy.

“In the event that these AI creations are used for monetary gain, then obviously it is an even more ethically tricky issue, because you’re profiting from the deceased,” he said.

Melbourne University Centre for AI and Digital Ethics Deputy Director Marc Cheong
Melbourne University Centre for AI and Digital Ethics Deputy Director Marc Cheong. (Supplied)

Cheong said the influx of AI slop may end up turning some people away from social media.

“But at the same time, social media is optimised for engagement,” he said.

“There will be users who continue to be engaged with this content, because inherently, how social media gets their profits from is from your attention.”

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