Meet Sora: AI-created videos test public trust
by Laurent Belsie
Feb 26, 2024
4 minutes
In a world where artificial intelligence can conjure up fake photos and videos, it’s getting hard to know what to believe.
Will photos of crime-scene evidence or videos of authoritarian crackdowns, such as China’s Tiananmen Square or police brutality, pack the same punch they once did? Will trust in the media, already low, erode even more?
Such questions became more urgent earlier this month when OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, announced Sora. This AI system allows anyone to generate short videos. There’s no camera needed. Just type in a few descriptive words or phrases, and voilà, they turn into realistic-looking, but entirely computer-generated, videos.
The announcement
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