OpenAI’s New Social Community Is Reportedly TikTok If It Was Simply an AI Slop Feed

Welcome to the age of anti-social media. According to a report from Wired, OpenAI is planning on launching a standalone app for its video technology software Sora 2 that can embody a TikTok-style video scroll that can let individuals scroll by means of totally AI-generated movies. The quixotic effort follows Meta’s recent launch of an AI-slop-only feed on its Meta AI app that was met with nearly universal negativity.

Per Wired, the Sora 2 app will characteristic the acquainted swipe-up-to-scroll model navigation that’s featured for many vertical video platforms like TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts. It’ll additionally use a customized advice algorithm to feed customers content material that may enchantment to their pursuits. Customers will be capable to like, remark, or “remix” a submit—all very normal social media fare.

The large distinction is that all the content material on the platform will probably be AI-generated by way of OpenAI’s video technology mannequin that may take textual content, photographs, or present video and AI-ify it. The movies will probably be as much as 10 seconds lengthy, presumably as a result of that’s about how lengthy Sora can maintain itself collectively earlier than it begins hallucinating bizarre shit. (The primary model of Sora permits movies as much as 60 seconds, however struggles to supply actually convincing and steady imagery for that lengthy.) Based on Wired, there is no such thing as a approach to immediately add a photograph or video and submit it unedited.

Apparently, OpenAI has found out the best way to work a social ingredient into the app, albeit in a manner that has a form of inherent creepiness to it. Per Wired, the Sora 2 app will ask customers to confirm their id by way of facial recognition to verify their likeness. After confirming their id, their likeness can be utilized in movies. Not solely can they insert themselves right into a video, however different customers can tag you and use your likeness of their movies. Customers will reportedly get notified any time their likeness is used, even when the generated video is saved to drafts and by no means posted.

How that will probably be carried out when and if the app launches to the general public, we’ll need to see. However as reported, it looks like an absolute nightmare. Mainly, the one factor that the federal authorities has managed to seek out any form of consensus round in the case of regulating AI is offering some limited protections against non-consensual deepfakes. As described, that type of looks like one characteristic of Sora 2 is letting your likeness be manipulated by others. Certainly there will probably be some form of opt-out out there or capacity to limit who can use your likeness, proper?

According to Wired, there will probably be some protections as to the kind of content material that Sora 2 will permit customers to create. It’s skilled to refuse to violate copyright, as an illustration, and can reportedly have filters in place to limit sure sorts of movies from being produced. However will it truly supply adequate safety to individuals? OpenAI made an enormous level to emphasise the way it added protections to the unique Sora mannequin to forestall it from producing nudity and express photos, however tests of the system managed to get it to create prohibited content anyway at a low-but-not-zero price.

Gizmodo reached out to OpenAI to verify its plans for the app, however didn’t obtain a response on the time of publication. There was hypothesis for months in regards to the launch of Sora 2, with some expectation that it might be introduced concurrently GPT-5. For now, it and its accompanying app stay theoretical, however there may be at the very least one good concept hidden within the idea of the all-AI social feed, albeit in all probability not in the best way OpeAI meant it: Maintain AI content material quarantined.