San Francisco- OpenAI will close your application to social networks Sora, which went viral last fall for being a place to share short videos generated by artificial intelligence (AI)but that also set off alarms in hollywood and other places.
OpenAI said Tuesday in a brief social media message that it was “saying goodbye to the Sora app” and would soon provide more information on how to preserve what users had already created in the app.
“What you did with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing,” it said.
The company behind ChatGPT launched Sora in September as an attempt to capture the attention, and potentially the advertising dollars, that follow short videos on TikTok, YouTube either instagram and Facebookproperty of Meta.
But a growing chorus of advocacy groups, academics and experts expressed concern about the dangers of letting people create AI videos about almost anything they can type into a prompt, which would lead to the proliferation of non-consensual images and realistic deepfakes in a sea of less harmful “AI slop.”
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OpenAI was forced to take action against the AI creations of public figures – including, Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mister Rogers – who did extravagant things, but only after the protest of the family estates and an actors’ union.
Disney, which struck a deal with OpenAI last year to bring its characters to Sora, said in a statement Tuesday that it respected “OpenAI’s decision to exit the video generation business and shift its priorities elsewhere.”