Sight for Sora Eyes.
I feel like these tech companies are just messing with us now. As soon as we get used to living in a previously-unimaginable world of their creation, they go and drop some more shit on us. My nan’s just got to grips with Skype, how exactly am I meant to explain to her that we can now create generative video from verbal cues? She’s never even worn a pair of jeans, for Christ’s sake.
At the back end of last week, OpenAI introduced a new AI model called Sora which can create realistic 60-second videos from text prompts, serving up scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and extensive background details. And it’s pretty much as bonkers as it sounds. Who needs an imagination, anyway?
Oscar Wilde, as an aesthete, had a lovely vision for a future in which we developed technology to do all the work so we could sit around writing poetry and creating art all day. How have we ended up in a situation where the machines are making all the art while we do all the work?
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