How can anybody be sure that anything they see these days is real?
The New York Times reported on Friday, October 3, that in the three days since OpenAI’s Sora 2 has been available for use, people have already managed to create potentially inflammatory videos that are, frankly, so much more realistic-looking than past AI-generated videos that they could cause mass misinformation on an entirely new scale.
Yep. we saw this coming.
Put aside the amusing video of OpenAI’s Sam Altman getting caught shoplifting from a Target, and consider the ramifications of people who use Sora’s incredible realism to spread misinformation and inflame public tensions.
One Sora-generated video showed what appeared to be security camera footage of a masked man stuffing ballots into a mailbox. Another showed t