"OpenAI's new video tool, Sora 2, is either a cultural touchstone or just more AI slop, depending on who you ask. Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, an early investor in OpenAI, made his thoughts crystal clear in an X post on Saturday. "Let the viewers of this 'slop' judge it, not ivory tower luddite snooty critics or defensive creatives," he wrote. He also called the critics "tunnel vision creatives.""
"The Sora 2 app, released earlier this week, allows users to create short-form AI videos using text prompts and images. Users can also scan their face and voice and insert themselves into videos. Since its launch, the tool has simultaneously proven popular, shooting to the top of Apple's App Store, and been derided as "brain rot" or " AI slop." Khosla says the negative reactions are shortsighted."
"As Business Insider's Katie Notopoulos wrote earlier this week: "The flip side of all this wonder is also the terrifying part." "This is the first time I've felt AI get close to mimicking real life. In other words, you might have a hard time telling what's real and what's fake when you watch these Sora-made videos," she wrote."
OpenAI released Sora 2, a mobile app that creates short-form AI videos from text prompts and images and lets users scan their face and voice to insert themselves into videos. The app quickly rose to the top of Apple's App Store and prompted enthusiastic user experimentation. Some critics derided Sora 2 as 'AI slop' or 'brain rot.' Vinod Khosla defended the tool, calling critical reactions shortsighted and labeling critics 'tunnel vision creatives,' while comparing the reaction to early digital music and photography backlash. Concerns include copyright risks and powerful deepfake capabilities that can blur distinctions between real and fake footage.
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