‘It’s frightening’: YouTubers split over OpenAI’s video tool Sora

A video created by Open AI's newly released text-to-video ‘Sora’ tool plays on a monitor in Washington, DC. Reactions to Sora have ranged from head-over-heels enthusiasm to alarm over the future direction of the content creation industry. — AFP

PARIS: 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.

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