OpenAI’s latest text-to-video generating app, Sora 2, exploded onto the scene late last week, quickly devolving into a mind-numbing mess of AI slop.
Before OpenAI stemmed the flood with crudely implemented guardrails, users immediately started generating footage featuring copyrighted materials, from SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth to CEO Sam Altman grilling a photorealistic Pikachu.
The spread of copyrighted material on the app sparked a debate surrounding the mass infringement of protected intellectual property, which has already led to major Hollywood studios coming after OpenAI’s competitors.
But despite the app’s messy launch, Altman has remained adamant that rightsholders are already lining up to have their IP featured on the platform.
During a newly-released chat with the a