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Meta announces Movie Gen, an AI-powered video generator

Meta’s Movie Gen follows OpenAI’s Sora AI video generator.

The New York Times reports that the audio added to videos is also AI-generated, matching the imagery with ambient noise, sound effects, and background music. OpenAI’s Sora, first announced in February, still hasn’t launched publicly; this week, a co-lead working on the video generator left the company for Google. Creatives like filmmakers, photographers, artists, writers, and actors also worry about how AI generators will affect their livelihoods, and AI has been a central part of several strikes, including the historic joint Hollywood strikes by the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) and Writers Guild of America (WGA) last year.

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