In case you missed it, OpenAI’s latest video generating tool Sora 2 launched earlier this week, and instantly did gangbusters at the slop office.
Users gleefully rushed to generate loads of feverish clips that place OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in all sorts of absurd scenarios — which we covered extensively in another blog — and with such ferocity that they’ve basically taken over AI corners of social media.
And so rather than demonstrating a tool that will revolutionize the arts, as AI companies so often claim their image and text-regurgitating tech will do, the social media buzz around Sora 2 has been a delirious case in point of how people largely use it to churn out dumb and edgy memes and total nonsense — slop, in the parlance — not to mention potentially damaging misinformation, such as f