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Sora, which is fun and simple to use, shows that OpenAI remains good at creating viral products, unlike Meta, whose Vibes video feed feels half-baked and obtuse

as the largest jump in video capability basically ever — Sora 2 somehow matches up here. For people that played around a lot with Sora 1, it didn't feel clear that Sora really ‘understood’ Miles Brundage / @miles_brundage : There are many legit reasons to be concerned about video generation tech IMO. But conflating video generation as a whole with slop is a mistake, just as it was with text generation. “Not all generated videos” but unironically, and the distinction is important. Rat King / @mikeisaac : this new OpenAI video app is going to be a thing very fast. people need to brace for how scary-quickly the verisimilitude of using your likeness in videos is improving if my middle-aged peer group can't tell i posted an AI selfie video, Facebook boomers are defenseless Tae Kim / @firstadopter : Meta shares should be down a lot more than 2% on Sora disruption risk [image] Pietro Schirano / @skirano : Man, imagine being Mark Zuckerberg, spending billions to build a slop machine, only for another slop machine to out-slop you just days later. LinkedIn: Amanda Silberling : OpenAI has its own TikTok competitor/social media app where you can deepfake yourself, and others if their settings allow — it's a mess. … Bluesky: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Started using the Sora app and it's like TikTok for AI generated videos.  —  I used to think it would take a year or two for AI videos to become as popular as influencer content on social media but I can see this app causing that to happen by the end of the year. Amanda Silberling / @amanda.omg.lol : I've spent too much time on OpenAI's invite-only Sora social media app since it came out yesterday and IT'S REALLY WEIRD. @techcrunch.com  —  techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/o... Mastodon: Chris Enns / @ichris@mastodon.social : I want to believe AI slop is just harmless goofs, and while it's early days on OpenAI's Sora social app, I agree with JA Westenberg: If You Let Your Kid Use Sora, You're A Bad Parent.  —  “These apps are not neutral.  They are not tools that can be molded by “responsible” use.” https://www.theindex.media/...

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  • @signulll @signulll on x
    it's absolutely unhinged that we've already reached the point where you can spin up a full episode of something like family guy or south park or futurama without writers, animators, voice actors, etc. just a simple prompt which will also be written by ai at some point. seasons [v…
  • @openai @openai on x
    Bloopers by Sora 2. [video]
  • @iscienceluvr Tanishq Mathew Abraham, Ph.D. on x
    I unfortunately don't know much about mobile app and desktop software dev so I'm genuinely asking: WHY DO ALL COMPANIES RELEASE iOS/macOS PRODUCTS FIRST/ONLY??? How hard is it to release Android and Windows versions of your product? Recent example is the Sora app, which is
  • @benhylak Ben on x
    1. it's a lot harder 2. there's pretty much no point. android users are poor.
  • @theo @theo on x
    Fun fact with Sora: you can screw with other people's prompts if they tag you for a cameo [image]
  • @benhylak Ben on x
    prediction: within two months, it'll be clear that Sora is a failure as a social app. it'll still be used extensively for generating short-form content though.
  • @alexeheath Alex Heath on x
    It turns out that people may not mind AI slop as long as they can be part of it with their friends. That Meta, the most successful social media company in history, apparently did not understand this, while OpenAI did, is striking. [image]
  • @johnohallman John Hallman on x
    AI-based feeds are scary. I won't deny that I felt some concern when I first learned we were releasing Sora 2. That said, I think the team did the absolute best job they possible could in designing a positive experience. Compared to other platforms, I find myself scrolling way
  • @boazbaraktcs Boaz Barak on x
    I share a similar mix of worry and excitement. Sora 2 is technically amazing but it's premature to congratulate ourselves on avoiding the pitfalls of other social media apps and deepfakes. I'm happy with a number of aspects: visible watermarking when exporting, real humans
  • @willdepue Will Depue on x
    Sora 2 is out! I'm incredibly impressed that despite Sora 1 setting a ridiculous bar — as the largest jump in video capability basically ever — Sora 2 somehow matches up here. For people that played around a lot with Sora 1, it didn't feel clear that Sora really ‘understood’
  • @miles_brundage Miles Brundage on x
    There are many legit reasons to be concerned about video generation tech IMO. But conflating video generation as a whole with slop is a mistake, just as it was with text generation. “Not all generated videos” but unironically, and the distinction is important.
  • @mikeisaac Rat King on x
    this new OpenAI video app is going to be a thing very fast. people need to brace for how scary-quickly the verisimilitude of using your likeness in videos is improving if my middle-aged peer group can't tell i posted an AI selfie video, Facebook boomers are defenseless
  • @firstadopter Tae Kim on x
    Meta shares should be down a lot more than 2% on Sora disruption risk [image]
  • @skirano Pietro Schirano on x
    Man, imagine being Mark Zuckerberg, spending billions to build a slop machine, only for another slop machine to out-slop you just days later.
  • @carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on bluesky
    Started using the Sora app and it's like TikTok for AI generated videos.  —  I used to think it would take a year or two for AI videos to become as popular as influencer content on social media but I can see this app causing that to happen by the end of the year.
  • @amanda.omg.lol Amanda Silberling on bluesky
    I've spent too much time on OpenAI's invite-only Sora social media app since it came out yesterday and IT'S REALLY WEIRD. @techcrunch.com  —  techcrunch.com/2025/10/01/o...
  • @ichris@mastodon.social Chris Enns on mastodon
    I want to believe AI slop is just harmless goofs, and while it's early days on OpenAI's Sora social app, I agree with JA Westenberg: If You Let Your Kid Use Sora, You're A Bad Parent.  —  “These apps are not neutral.  They are not tools that can be molded by “responsible” use.” h…