OpenAI shuts down its image and video generating tool Sora

[Dan Robinson]

Artificial Intelligence giant OpenAI is shutting down its Sora image and video-generating tool:

OpenAI shutting down Sora video-generating app

Disney's deal with OpenAI, which the companies struck in December, will be dissolved.

www.nbcnews.com

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-set-to-discontinue-sora-video-platform-app-a82a9e4e

Hopefully this will become a trend. The effects of image and video generating AI systems are nearly all bad, with very little good. All do the following:

• use massive amounts of energy compared to other AI systems
• require ingesting vast amounts of copyrighted works without a license, with courts trending toward ruling this as copyright infringement
• the output cannot be copyrighted, meaning there is no viable revenue stream (no licensing, no exclusivity)
• the output replaces the artist/photographer whos works it trained on in the market (customers can generate works in that artist's/photographer's style for free)
• the output enables vast amounts of fraud and deception
• the public opinion of these types of AI gens has been increasingly negative

We've already seen many examples of systems like these ingesting massive amounts of chaser's work to generate very realistic tornado images and videos. Production companies and businesses have already reportedly used these systems in revenue projects instead of licensing from any of the chasers whos works were used to train the AI.

If the other AI giants follow suit here, this could be great news for the stock photography and video economy.

 

[Warren Faidley]

Wishful thinking but the genie is out of the bottle and AI is here to stay.