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Last week OpenAI launched a very strange new app called Sora. Sora is actually Sora 2. There was a Sora before this that fewer people used and which lived inside the paid version of ChatGPT. But Sora too lives inside a standalone iPhone app called Sora. The short version is that it's an app that lets you make very realistic AI videos using your own face. Plug in a prompt and a little bit later it'll spit out a very realistic looking video clip. There's a little uncanny valley effect where you can tell, particularly if it's a video of someone you know, that it's been AI generated. But it's pretty close to being indiscernible from real. I think even someone relatively practiced at spotting fake videos on the internet should expect going forward to be fooled pretty often.
Sora launched with some safeguards. Nobody can make a video of you without your permission, but if you want to, you can choose to give the app permission for you to use your own face and videos, for your friends to use your face, or, if you're nuts, for strangers to use your face. I got on and I did the thing you do with these AI toys where I started making videos for myself, of myself. A very, very fat PJ shook hands with a very, very skinny PJ.
Whoa. You're me just thinner. And you're me plus a few pounds. Good to finally meet. Likewise.
Manosphere Bro podcaster PJ talked about his nutritional supplements from behind his no-neck, huge muscle.
Bod. Five grams, creatine monohydrate every day, fish oil, vitamin D, and a little ashwagonda. That's my baseline.
I would tell you more, but there's this rule of AI, which is that the things we make are like our dreams. Very interesting to us, very boring to everybody else. Anyway, there was a moment this week where I felt a little nausea about the future of the internet. AI slop content made by bots that floods the places where humans are trying to talk to each other has been rising across social platforms. And convincingly fake video seems like it'll make the internet worse, not better, at least for me. So I wanted to understand why this is happening. I wanted to both know how we got here, how a company claiming to want to create machine intelligence is detouring into the slope. But also where we might be going.
And that's why I'd called K C. Casey Newton, welcome back to the TerraDom.
Hi, PJ. Nice to be here.
So can you just explain in a way my dad would understand, like how do you explain what Sora two is?
Sora 2 is a text to video generator. If you compare it to something like Chat GPT, that's text to text, right? There's a box and I type, hey, do my high school English homework for me. And I click enter and it does it perfectly. Sora lets you say, Hey, make a video of me doing my high school English homework using my face, and then it does that instead. And it has Audio as well. So it might include a little bit of dialogue in what it produces.
And the way that it gets the audio is that when it captures your face, when you sort of let it capture your face, you just speak a couple numbers and from that it is able to kind of create a facsimile of your voice.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–6:23
2
What is the new AI video app Sora and why did it launch?
6:23–8:12
3
How does Sora generate realistic AI videos using your face?
8:12–9:46
4
What safeguards does Sora have for using personal likenesses?
9:46–11:29
5
What does the Mortal Kombat demo reveal about Sora’s capabilities?
11:29–15:48
6
How does Sora 2 differ from the original Sora and from ChatGPT?
15:48–29:27
7
What is the business case behind OpenAI’s Sora and its TikTok‑like feed?
29:27–38:55
8
How might OpenAI’s motives and revenue strategy be shifting toward a social platform?
38:55–46:24