OpenAI's new Sora AI model creates realistic videos from text prompts; the results are amazing and terrifying.
The company has already impressed us with its Chat GPT text bot and the text-to-image engine Dall-E. Now it's here with the Sora text-to-video tool, which can generate videos up to one minute long from text instructions. As you will see from the examples, the results are quite astonishing, although-like other so-called AI models, they're also full of weird giveaway glitches.
"It is hard not to be in awe of how far these systems have progressed and what they are now able to do - from whole-cloth generation to more nuanced examples like extending the runtime or changing a video's setting," artist and designer Nick Heer says on his Pixel envy blog.
Look at the weird salt-flats-astronaut video in this official Sora showreel, or check the individual version over at the Sora site. Unless you have real experience of analyzing this kind of thing, it's going to look awfully convincing. The only giveaway on first viewing is the kind of dead-stare look from the virtual "actors," which is also something of a signature look in still images created by Open AI rival Stability AI's text-to-image generator, Stable Diffusion. It really feels like a trailer for a pretty cool-looking indie sci-fi flick.
I was able to spot these examples as being AI generated. But it's rapidly getting to the point where us puny humans won't be able to discern that soon.
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