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Creators of Sora-powered short explain AI-generated video’s strengths and limitations
OpenAI's video generation tool Sora took the AI community by surprise in February with fluid, realistic video that seems miles ahead of competitors. But
Just as Apple says “shot on iPhone” but doesn’t show the studio setup, professional lighting, and color work after the fact, the Sora post only talks about what it lets people do, not how they actually did it. In other words, matters that are simple in traditional filmmaking, like choosing the color of a character’s clothing, take elaborate workarounds and checks in a generative system, because each shot is created independent of the others. Sora outputs had to be watched for unwanted elements as well: Cederberg described how the model would routinely generate a face on the balloon that the main character has for a head, or a string hanging down the front.
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