This weekend in Generative Media

Special edition: OpenAI's Sora generative video model

[Special “breaking news” edition today, instead of taking today off as planned!]

• Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions (OpenAI)

• OpenAI collapses media reality with Sora, a photorealistic AI video generator (Ars Technica)

• OpenAI Has Us Asking: What Happened to Ethical Software Development? (PetaPixel)

• 'I Am Absolutely Terrified': OpenAI's New Project Isn't 'Broadly' Available Yet — But It's Already Setting Off Alarm Bells (Entrepreneur)

• Berlin Debates AI Threat to Hollywood Jobs: “Fear the Person Who Uses These Tools” (Hollywood Reporter)

• With Sora, OpenAI highlights the mystery and clarity of its mission (VentureBeat)

• this is a single video generated by sora, shot changes and all. (X)

• will it nerf? yep ✅ (X)

• check out more info on the research behind Sora and more of Sora's abilities here: (X)

• I’m just as excited about this OpenAI Sora tool as anyone. But even with the most incredible tools it’s going to come down to the story we are telling. (X)

• Sora won’t be the only tool to deliver this level of quality and control, this year there are no excuses… it’s time to tell our stories. (X)