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Sora’s AI video revolution is still a ways off
The details are impressive, but so are the visual distortions.
It’s difficult to get human motion to be remotely natural: hands flailed everywhere when I asked it to show me someone applying makeup, and videos of people eating salad and sausage rolls were nightmarishly reminiscent of the viral AI clips of Will Smith inhaling spaghetti. Perhaps getting high-quality videos that don’t include any obvious AI weirdness is possible with enough time, experience, and editing skills, but if that’s the case, then it doesn’t feel like Sora is substantially “democratizing” content creation just yet. Quality issues haven’t stopped people from already trying to profit from the convenience AI video tools provide, though — YouTube is already saturated with nonsensical AI-generated slop targeted toward young children.
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