OpenAI’s recent launch of its text-to-video AI generator app, Sora 2, has already led to an enormous tidal wave of AI slop hitting internet feeds.
The company made the eyebrow-raising decision of putting deepfakes front and center of the app’s TikTok-like experience, inviting users to offer themselves up for “cameos” created by other users.
“With cameos, you can drop yourself straight into any Sora scene with remarkable fidelity after a short one-time video-and-audio recording in the app to verify your identity and capture your likeness,” the company boasted in its announcement.
And while not everybody was willing to become the butt of the joke, like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — whose visage quickly adorned AI-generated and unnerving CCTV footage of him shoplifting or his head popping out of