OpenAI’s latest text-to-video generator, Sora’s announcement on February 15, 2024, created quite a cacophony on social media, beyond the usual techbro euphoria.
Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model.
Sora can create videos of up to 60 seconds featuring highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions. https://t.co/7j2JN27M3W
Prompt: “Beautiful, snowy… pic.twitter.com/ruTEWn87vf — OpenAI (@OpenAI) February 15, 2024
AI has been a bane of an artist’s (programmers and many other profession’s) existence, stealing art and jobs, and threatening to shutter many industries. Amid such doom and gloom, memes doth provide a momentary respite. As hyper realistic renders generated by Sora baffle everyone, netizens are taking potshots at the AI with video memes not generated by the model. The avalanche probably started with Jordan B. Peterson sharing an innocuous post that assumed a clip from the Bollywood movie Singham featuring Ajay Devgan was Sora-generated. The community note flagged the post but the trend seems to have caught on.
Here are a few and don’t miss the Mark Zuckerberg (and psst…a certain politician sipping water whilst facing tough questions) one. The prompts in the captions are 🤌
Sora is amazing
"An agile Indian police officer, in denim jeans and a black polo shirt, steps out of a drifting car wearing aviators, he aims his gun and fires at the tires of another car, causing it to flip over. Swiftly, he pulls out the driver just as the car flips over him" pic.twitter.com/Z8WMB5nfXs — cokanestudio (@cokanestudio) February 16, 2024
This video was generated using OpenAI’s powerful new Sora text-to-video model.
Prompt: Shaggy dog punches man, causes chaos in an office, jumps out a window and slides down a rope. pic.twitter.com/8DQ7ARn4U5 — Colin Matthews (@colinwmatthews) February 18, 2024
Got a try at Sora and the results are amazing!
Prompt: “Indian male dressed in the style of Neo from the Matrix, infiltrates lobby of building filled with security guards and SWAT officers and engages in a gunfight. Slow motion scenes, black sunglasses, 4K HDR.” pic.twitter.com/ac10PwCsyb — Mutahar (@OrdinaryGamers) February 17, 2024
This video was generated using OpenAI’s powerful new Sora text-to-video model.
Prompt: Australian man wrongfully arrested while eating a succulent Chinese meal pic.twitter.com/GHG8pDLisz — 𝕯𝖎𝖑𝖉𝖔 𝕭𝖆𝖌𝖌𝖎𝖓𝖘 (@EmmaTolkin) February 17, 2024
Video generated by SORA open ai 😁 !
Prompt : King of punjabi music industry chilling after dropping a banger pic.twitter.com/xPtChQTbzb — Freshy Canadian (@FreshyCanadian) February 17, 2024
Tried Sora and the results are amazing!
Prompt: “TV with such advanced technology that the person behind the screen actually pops out for an incredibly real viewing experience.” pic.twitter.com/TJByWzFgaH — Shreemi Verma (@shreemiverma) February 17, 2024
BREAKING: OpenAI just launched Sora, an AI model that can create 60-second videos from just text prompts. The video below was 100% created by Sora.
Prompt: Obstinate man creates an incident that serves as a symbol for the power of an individual against an overarching state pic.twitter.com/nomKi223Pg — opdroid1234 (@opdroid1234) February 16, 2024
Sora by OpenAI is just amazing
Here was my prompt: create a video of a girl playing basketball with a football in tennis dress on a golf course pic.twitter.com/hETUdvae8F — Ayush Pranav (@ayushpranav3) February 16, 2024
Sora Prompt:
"Mark Zuckerberg trying to fit in between a group of UFC fighters" pic.twitter.com/ym0bthVwtA — iArgue (@x_ai_a12) February 18, 2024
Sora by OpenAI is just amazing
Here was my prompt: Create a video of a politician drinking water when faced with tough questions during an interview on national television. pic.twitter.com/Z3kQrdkSvo — Tarun Gautam (@TARUNspeakss) February 17, 2024
AI prompt: alien trying to act normal in a crowd of humans pic.twitter.com/v7qrpx6OzD — Inverse Cramer (Not Jim Cramer) (@CramerTracker) February 18, 2024
Sora is yet to be released to the aam junta even as OpenAI is doing adversarial testing incorporating a small red team. The outcome will help regulate and integrate checks in place. The threat of malevolent players utilizing Sora or similar tools to generate porn and propaganda is ever present. Was it trained on similar data? The company has yet to reveal the data set.