OpenAI gave us two very different Sora releases. Here is the official announcement.

The part where they gave us a new and improved video generator? Great, love it.

The part where they gave us a new social network dedicated purely to short form AI videos? Not great, Bob. Don’t be evil.

OpenAI is claiming they are making their social network with an endless scroll of 10-second AI videos the Actively Good, pro-human version of The Big Bright Screen Slop Machine, that helps you achieve your goals and can be easily customized and favors connection and so on. I am deeply skeptical.

They also took a bold copyright stance, with that stance being, well, not quite ‘f*** you,’ but kind of close? You are welcome to start flagging individual videos. Or you can complain to them more generally about your characters and they say they can [...]