OpenAI’s new social video tool is an unholy abomination

Really, it is almost unfair to consider a technology company to be a mission statement. Out of Google “Don't be angry” too Weworks “Increase the awareness of the world,” the mission statements are usually written in the adolescence of a company. At this unpleasant moment when their dreams extend to the horizon, the risk capital providers smiled, and nobody heard of the term “fiduciary responsibility”. It is like judging someone based on the feelings on the back of your school yearbook based on the feelings.

But Openaai, you press it.

Navigate to the company of the company On the sideAnd you will still read these words that appeared for the first time in his Charter 2018 three years after it was founded: “Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence – AI systems that are generally smarter than humans – benefit all of humanity.” To put it the least, it is not something you have always lived, like some of Future Perfect's Perfect's reporting the Pursue has demonstrated. (Disclosure: VOX Media is one of several publishers who have signed partnership agreements with Openaai. Our reporting remains editorially independent.)

Look if you had asked me what my mission statement was when I was 3 years old, it would probably have been: “Will you become the first NBA player to end up on Mars.” We do not always achieve what we have planned. Priorities change, they do not grow on 7-foot-2, it turns out that they are afraid of the room-know what I mean.

With its latest product-generated video social network Sora 2-Hat Openaai, however, the all-time record for the largest distance between the mission statement and actual work.

Infinite portions ai slop

The best way to understand Sora 2 enthusiastic about them – With the undeniable the worst aspect of modern media: The endless scroll of senseless vertical videosWhat has under other negative effects our attention span.

It's like taking heroin and with … I don't know, is there a medication that makes you very addicted, does it in front of a screen and subtract a few dozen IQ points? Heroin, with more heroin? I am not sure if I have the drug experience to answer this question.

The fundamental problems that give up through incredibly real AI-generated videos are obvious and are almost instantly state at Sora 2s at the beginning of this week.

Take copyright infringement. One of the first Sora 2 videos that I came across was a perfectly rendered Rick and Morty Visit Spongebob -Quadratiken, and yes, my soul died a little with this sentence. It turns out copyrighted material By default, owners of intellectual property are used to ask Openai proactively, pretty, please take their material out. What it will be – even if not before Openai reaps the social network of all these Rick- and Morty clones, just like during the Brief enthusiasm for Studio Ghibling Your photos. (I know that you all still have them somewhere.)

Then there are the Deepfakes. One of the Killer functions of Sora 2 is that you can upload your image to the app and then transfer it to a video you want or allow your friends to be chaotically neutral, or to be chaotically neutral any Sora users to use it. Well, like the Washington Post reportedIt took about five seconds for clips to be produced from fake police chamber material. real people who are disguised as Nazi generos; Highly realistic but false film material of historical events; And yes, The Openai CEO Sam Altman charging stiping.

This means that the President of the United States is the moment the President of the United States is Posting Openai has the American to end up with a Sora 2 Access code-a perfectly realistic fake fake video with a button that has ai-generated deep paw videos of the democratic house minor leader in a sombrero and a mustache. And Creates a tictok-like social network in which it could be shared. While it is good that Openai has recorded rules for the ban on the ban on identity, fraud and fraud as well as guardrails to block nudity and graphic violence, it feels a bit as if you are certainly completely harmless.

Somehow I doubt that something of it “benefits all of humanity”. But the end result of Openaai will almost certainly benefit, at a moment in which the company was Especially worth 500 billion US dollars – even beat SpaceX – and when noises are over an AI bubble impossible to ignore. (Fast, sora 2, create a video of what will be left of the US economy When the only industry drives it Goes ka-blooey!)

So. What does Sam Altman think about all of this? Fortunately, Sam has kept a blog since at least 2013 when it was Thinking about the possible existence of aliens. Sora 2, he wroteis a “chatt for creativity 'moment”, which could lead to a “Cambrian explosion” in which “quality of art and entertainment can increase drastically”.

What … do I think? Certainly the age of aftermath led to some rather strange creatures, like that TullimonstrumPresent Or “Tully Monster”, a creature with stems with a grave hose for a mouth that looks like she could achieve a Sora 2-access code. If the senseless deep papal remix machine, which is Sora 2, will be seen as creativity in the future, just give me that PaperClip Maximizer AI.

But maybe the worst part of Sora 2 – and Similar AI slop generators from meta – is that it overshadows the AI ​​work that actually benefits all of humanity. In the same week, Openaai Sora 2 unleashed us, a number of exile from large AI companies announced the start of periodic laboratoriesA startup that aims to use artificial intelligence to accelerate discoveries in physics, chemistry and other scientific areas. You know, things that we could actually use.

Perhaps it is too easy that I ask the best and best -compensated minds of my generation, which at AI companies, instead of doing this. After all, Openai is a business. (Or a non -profit organization? Or a public performance society? To be honest, it's a little At the moment in the air.) It follows what the market dictates. This means that the last line of defense for us, the users of the world, get up and say: “No, I won't eat your AI slop.”

Of course Sora was number 3 on the last check iPhone app diagram. We are all screwed.