On an initial glance, a video that’s going viral on social media looks like a typical 1990s TV commercial for a children’s toy set of a tropical island: there are palm trees, a waterfall, and — wait a minute — there’s also a secret massage room, and even an “Orange Man” action figure who looks exactly like Donald Trump and says “don’t release the files” in an ominous voice.
“Kick back with two chill old dudes!” enthuses a manic-sounding narrator. “The only island with real working spy cams hidden in secret rooms!”
It’s a dark parody poking fun at deceased financier Jeffrey Epstein, in other words, who’d been accused of sex trafficking underage girls to his Caribbean island before his death in 2019. And it was all cooked up in OpenAI’s AI video generator Sora 2, which was released this we