OpenAI is facing existential pressure after having to cancel a $1 billion Disney deal that would have allowed the media company to use their video AI app Sora to develop content. The app was ended due to an inability to prevent it from creating dangerous deepfake videos, including pornographic ones.
Disney said of the severed deal, “We appreciate the constructive collaboration between our teams and what we learned from it, and we will continue to engage with AI platforms to find new ways to meet fans where they are while responsibly embracing new technologies that respect IP and the rights of creators.”
OpenAI shuts down Sora app amid rising concerns about deepfakes and consent – www.cbc.ca
OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last year as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere.
OpenAI said in a brief social media message Tuesday that it was “saying goodbye to the Sora app” and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users had already created on the app.
“What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing,” it said.
The company behind chatbot ChatGPT released Sora in September as an attempt to capture the attention — and potentially advertising dollars — claimed by short-form videos on TikTok, YouTube or Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook.