"Sora's rapid adoption drove a number of App Store scammers to try to get in on the act. Following the launch of OpenAI's invite-only, video-generating mobile app last week, Apple's App Store was flooded with fakes that also proclaimed themselves to be "Sora" or "Sora 2" - the latter a reference to the underlying new AI video model that was released alongside the mobile app."
"Many of the apps were not newcomers, either. Some had been live on the App Store - sometimes using other names - since earlier in the year or even last year. The impostors, which include those live on Google Play as well, had seen around 300,000 collective installs to date, with north of 80,000 installs coming in after the official Sora's app launch. (OpenAI has since announced that Sora's official mobile app has been downloaded 1 million times, for comparison.)"
OpenAI released an invite-only, video-generating mobile app called Sora. Numerous impostor apps using the names "Sora" or "Sora 2" appeared on Apple's App Store after the launch. Over a dozen Sora-branded listings went live, and more than half used "Sora 2" in their names to exploit search behavior. Several impostors had been on stores earlier under different names and updated after the launch to capitalize on demand. The group of impostors accumulated roughly 300,000 installs, including over 80,000 after the official launch. Apple removed many of the fake apps following discovery.
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