Artificial intelligence
ChatGPT company now also creates video from text presets
OpenAI has developed Sora – a software that can generate videos from text specifications. photo
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Several companies have already developed software that can generate videos from text. Now OpenAI is also expanding its portfolio to include this offer. The general public cannot yet use Sora immediately.
Videos created by Sora can be up to a minute long. On the software website, OpenAI published several examples along with the description on which they were based. One of them shows a woman walking through a street. The video was generated entirely by artificial intelligence, with the text specifying that the woman should wear a leather jacket and a red dress and that the street should be reminiscent of Tokyo and have lots of neon signs that were also reflected in puddles. Other videos show, among other things, mammoths walking in the snow and a town in California during the gold rush.
Several other companies have already developed software that can create videos from text. OpenAI admits that Sora still has weaknesses: the model sometimes makes mistakes when implementing physics rules. It could also happen, for example, that someone takes a bite of a cookie in the video – and the cookie later still looks whole.
Fake videos on a large scale?
AI technology that generates moving images from text templates could transform video production over time. At the same time, there are great concerns that fake videos could be created on a large scale and could hardly be distinguished from real recordings. The developers of the technology are therefore working on ways to incorporate unique identifying features such as watermarks into the videos. Sora videos should also show that they were created by AI.
ChatGPT sparked the hype about artificial intelligence just over a year ago. Just like such AI chatbots, the software for generating photos and videos is also trained with huge amounts of information.