OpenAI to Discontinue Sora, AI Video App
OpenAI said it will discontinue Sora, the generative-AI video creation app it launched last year, without providing a reason for the decision.
The company behind ChatGPT released Sora in September as an attempt to capture the attention, and potentially advertising dollars, that follow short-form videos on TikTok, YouTube or Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook.
But a growing chorus of advocacy groups, academics and experts expressed concerns about the dangers of letting people create AI videos on just about anything they can type into a prompt, leading to the proliferation of nonconsensual images and realistic deepfakes in a sea of less harmful “AI slop”.
“We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built a community around it: thank you. What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing,” OpenAI’s Sora team said in a statement Tuesday.
The statement added, “We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.” OpenAI didn’t respond to requests for additional info.
The company added it needed to make trade-offs on products that have high compute costs.
The Sora decision marks the end of a blockbuster $1 billion deal between Disney and the ChatGPT maker, announced a little more than three months ago.
As part of the three-year deal, Disney said it would invest $1 billion in OpenAI and lend more than 200 of its iconic characters for short, AI-generated videos. U.S. Tech Giants’ AI Spending to Hit $700 billion
