A select group of artists, designers and filmmakers have now had a couple of months to play with OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool since the company announced it, and on Monday, OpenAI shared some of their creations and first impressions.
“As great as Sora is at generating things that appear real, what excites us is its ability to make things that are totally surreal,” Toronto-based multimedia production company, a short film it made with Sora. The word surreal aptly describes the video, which stars a guy with a yellow balloon for a noggin.Balloon guy goes on to describe the joys and pitfalls of living with the anatomical anomaly.
“While we have many improvements to make to Sora, we're already getting a glimpse of how the model can help creatives bring ideas to reality,” the company said.to concern artists’ work will be stolen to train AI datasets or that algorithms will steal creatives’ jobs altogether. Often, the views exist simultaneously. The artists and filmmakers granted early access to the tool, not surprisingly, appear to tilt heavily toward the excited end of the spectrum, at least when it comes to Sora.
“The ability to rapidly conceptualize at such a high level of quality is not only challenging my creative process but also helping me evolve in storytelling,” said Josephine Miller, creative director of London-basedMiller’s short film presents a dreamy subaquatic world where humans serenely float and twirl in garments covered with iridescent fish-like scales.
In it, one man straight out of a black-and-white noir scene walks down a rainy cobblestone city street, another hunches over timepieces in a old-time clock repair shop rendered in nostalgic sepia tones. Wait, is that a futuristic-looking sportscar surfacing from under the ocean? Why yes, yes it is.