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YouTubers split over OpenAI's video tool Sora

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 21 Feb 2024 21:31
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YouTuber Marques Brownlee described it as "frightening" and "threatening" to witness an AI doing his job.

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  • YouTubers split over OpenAI's video tool Sora
     The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT's Dall-E text-to-image model, Friday, Dec. 8, 2023, in Boston, US (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Last week, the US-based OpenAI released a program that can make incredibly realistic video clips from only a few lines of text, prompting content creators to question if they are the next professions to be replaced by robots.

The technology, known as Sora, has elicited reactions ranging from ecstatic excitement to concern about the industry's future path.

YouTuber Marques Brownlee described it as "frightening" and "threatening" to witness an AI doing his job.

Caleb Ward, one half of AI filmmaking team Curious Refuge, told his YouTube subscribers that he was excited to try the tool and both Ward and Brownlee agreed it was a watershed moment for their sector. 

Ward expressed that "I can't stress enough how big a deal this is for the filmmaking and creative world,"

OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, stated in its release that Sora was not yet available to the public.

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The release did not define use cases but stated that "a number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers" had been selected to assist in testing it.

The company supplemented its announcement with example films of a beautiful woman going down a Tokyo street, a kitten waking up its owner in bed, and a herd of charging woolly mammoths, promting the web to explode with excitement and adulation.

Anis Ayari, an AI engineer and streamer known as Defend Intelligence, told AFP he was "shocked" by their quality, signaling this could be the beginning of completely virtual presenters.

Many doubters believed the films were still firmly mired in the "uncanny valley," where faults in otherwise photorealistic pictures may make viewers uncomfortable.

According to commentator Ed Zitron, in OpenAI's cat video, "the owner's arm appears to be part of the cushion, and the cat's paw explodes out of its arm like an amoeba".

He stated in his email that AI video technologies were too pricey and resource-intensive to ever be truly effective.

The clip styles could not be harmonized, rendering the tools ineffective for generating anything other than small snippets.

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