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Video is AI’s new frontier – and it is so persuasive, we should all be worried | I tried Sora, OpenAI’s new tool, and it just left me sad. Are we ready for a world in which we can never tell what is real?
I tried Sora, OpenAI’s new tool, and it just left me sad. Are we ready for a world in which we can never tell what is real, asks journalist Victoria Turk
Video is AI’s new frontier, with OpenAI finally rolling out Sora in the US after first teasing it in February, and Meta announcing its own text-to-video tool, Movie Gen, in October. Some of my favourite nature documentary moments have been behind-the-scenes clips in programmes such as Our Planet, which reveal how long a cameraperson waited silently in a purpose-made hide to capture a rare species, or how they jerry-rigged their equipment to get the perfect shot. Even the blurriest real photograph of 2024 meme hero Moo Deng contains more life than a Movie Gen video of a baby hippo swimming, which, however sleekly rendered, is dead behind the eyes.
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