The new video app from the makers of ChatGPT creates a ‘real risk’ for misinformation and disinformation, AI experts have warned.
Sora, viewed as a rival to TikTok (but where all you see is made by AI), launched last week and has already blessed us with videos including Spongebob dressed as Hitler, and the company’s boss Sam Altman grilling Pikachu’s dead body on a barbecue.
Those examples are obviously not things that really happened, but the software is willing to depict things much more believable, such as bombs exploding, robberies, and Sam Altman (again) shoplifting from Target in fake CCTV footage.
Kate Miltner, a lecturer in Data, AI, and Society at the University of Sheffield, told Metro: ‘I think that this has a real potential for misuse. The sophistication of these tools makes