OpenAI’s Sora Is a Giant ‘F*ck You’ to Reality

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Everybody knows that online disinformation is a huge problem—one that has arguably torn communities apart, manipulated elections, and caused certain segments of the global population to lose their minds. Of course, nobody seems particularly concerned about actually fixing this problem. In fact, the institutions most responsible for online disinformation (and thus, the ones most well-placed to do something about it)—that is to say, tech companies—seem intent on doing everything they can to make the problem exponentially worse. Case in point: OpenAI launched Sora, its new text-to-video generator, on Thursday. The model is designed to allow web users to generate high-quality,...