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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/20240222-AFP.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT and image generator DALL-E, said it was testing &quot;Sora,&quot; which would allow users to create realistic videos with a simple prompt. <em>(Photo by Drew Angerer / AFP)</em></span><em> </em></span></span></span></div><p>PARIS, France — US firm OpenAI debuted a tool last week that can generate highly realistic snippets of video from just a few lines of text, leading content creators to wonder if they are the latest professionals about to be replaced by algorithms.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/2/16/chatgpt-s-openai-reveals-text-to-video-tool-1121">ChatGPT&#x27;s OpenAI reveals text-to-video tool</a></div><p>Reactions to the tool, called Sora, have ranged from head-over-heels enthusiasm to alarm over the future direction of the industry.</p><p>YouTuber Marques Brownlee called it &quot;frightening&quot; and &quot;threatening&quot; to see an AI doing his job.</p><p>On the other hand, Caleb Ward, one half of AI filmmaking duo Curious Refuge, told his YouTube followers he could not wait to get his hands on the tool.</p><p>Yet both Ward and Brownlee agreed that it was a massive moment for their industry.</p><p>&quot;I can&#x27;t stress enough how big a deal this is for the filmmaking and creative world,&quot; said Ward, who recently went viral with a trailer he created for a Wes Anderson-style Star Wars movie.</p><p>OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, said in its announcement that Sora was not yet available to the public.</p><p>The announcement did not specify use cases but said &quot;a number of visual artists, designers and filmmakers&quot; had been chosen to help test it.</p><div><strong>&#x27;Like an amoeba&#x27; </strong></div><p>The firm accompanied its statement with sample videos including a stylish woman walking along a Tokyo street, a cat waking up its owner in bed, and a group of charging woolly mammoths.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/01/16/24/openai-seeks-to-allay-election-meddling-fears-in-blog-post">OpenAI seeks to allay election meddling fears in blog post</a></div><p>The internet immediately lit up with awe and praise, as is common with OpenAI products.</p><p>&quot;I was shocked by their quality,&quot; Anis Ayari, an AI engineer and streamer known as Defend Intelligence, told AFP.</p><p>He suggested the tool could one day be used to create entirely virtual presenters.</p><p>But there were also plenty of dissenters who felt the videos were still firmly stuck in the &quot;uncanny valley&quot;, where glitches in otherwise photo-realistic images can leave viewers feeling queasy.</p><p>Commentator Ed Zitron wrote that in OpenAI&#x27;s cat video &quot;the owner&#x27;s arm appears to be part of the cushion and the cat&#x27;s paw explodes out of its arm like an amoeba&quot;.</p><p>He wrote in his newsletter that AI video tools were too expensive and resource-hungry to ever be genuinely useful.</p><p>And styles of clips could not be harmonised, making the tools useless for creating anything other than tiny snippets.</p><div><strong>AI fatigue </strong></div><p>Sora enters a marketplace that is heating up, with Google, Stability AI and several other smaller players already in the game.</p><p>YouTube itself announced last September it was developing a tool to let creators make AI-generated videos and background pictures.</p><p>However, the tools already available have hardly taken the world by storm.</p><p>French streamer FibreTigre said he had tried AI video tools but ended his experiment.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/12/20/23/openai-releases-guidelines-to-gauge-catastrophic-risks-of-ai">OpenAI releases guidelines to gauge &#x27;catastrophic risks&#x27; of AI</a></div><p>He said he was worried about the ethics of using tools trained on other artists&#x27; work, and ultimately the programs did not do their job well enough.</p><p>&quot;They&#x27;re just ugly,&quot; he said of AI videos.</p><p>He said he could see a future where viewers would have a &quot;huge amount of fatigue&quot; with AI and would cherish anything that was not artificial.</p><div><strong>© Agence France-Presse</strong></div>

<p>Reactions to the tool, called Sora, have ranged from head-over-heels enthusiasm to alarm over the future direction of the industry.<br>
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Reactions to the tool, called Sora, have ranged from head-over-heels enthusiasm to alarm over the future direction of the industry.

'It's frightening': YouTubers split over OpenAI's text-to-video tool 'Sora'

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'It's frightening': YouTubers split over OpenAI's text-to-video tool 'Sora'

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Joseph Boyle and Kilian Fichou

Published February 22, 2024 03:37 PM PHT

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