OpenAI releases Sora video generator
Published: Tuesday, Dec 10th 2024, 12:40
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The world's leading AI start-up OpenAI has launched its eagerly awaited Sora software, which can be used to create videos from text specifications using artificial intelligence. The creators of the AI chatbot ChatGPT pointed out at the market launch that the new tool still has "many limitations" that can affect the videos created by users.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Sora is available for "American users and most countries internationally". However, users from Germany or Switzerland, for example, have so far only been told that Sora is not available in their country. And users in the USA who wanted to log in to the service were only shown an error message stating that Sora is temporarily unavailable due to the large number of users.
Sora is not free of charge
OpenAI also announced Sora's business model at the market launch: ChatGPT Plus subscribers, who pay $20 per month, can now create up to 50 videos per month at a comparatively low 480p resolution and up to 5 seconds in duration. Users of the new ChatGPT Pro subscription, which costs 200 dollars per month, have unlimited generation options and can create 20-second videos in 1080p resolution (Full HD). However, really high resolutions such as 4k or 8k are not offered.
In addition to text prompts, Sora can also create videos based on images and video input. For the time being, however, only some users will be able to create videos based on images and videos of real people. This is necessary due to the "potential for abuse". For security reasons, videos of children cannot be generated during this test phase either.
Fears of abuse
AI technology that generates moving images from text specifications could change video production over time. At the same time, there are major concerns that it could be used to create fake videos on a large scale that would be virtually indistinguishable from real footage. The developers of the technology are therefore working on ways to incorporate unique identifiers such as watermarks into the videos. Sora videos should also be recognizable as having been created by AI.
ChatGPT triggered the hype surrounding artificial intelligence in November 2022. Just like such AI chatbots, the software for generating photos and videos is also being trained with huge amounts of information. OpenAI is now in fierce competition, especially with Google, Amazon, Meta, xAI from Elon Musk, Anthropic and Baidu AI from China.
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