... In an interview with The New York Times, Open AI researchers Tim Brooks and Bill Peebles said Sora is not being publicly released, but will be shared “with a small group of academics and other outside researchers who will ‘red team’ it, a term for looking for ways it can be misused.”
OpenAI says on the Sora page it is “also granting access to a number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gain feedback on how to advance the model to be most helpful for creative professionals.” ...
NYT also registers concerns, such as it becoming “a quick and inexpensive way of creating online disinformation, making it even harder to tell what’s real on the Internet.” ...
OpenAI chose the name Sora, Japanese for “sky,” because it evokes limitless potential. Ensuring that potential will be used for good is the challenge. University of Washington Professor Oren Etzioni, who is also the founder of the non-profit True Media, tells NYT he is “absolutely terrified that this kind of thing will sway a narrowly contested election.” ...
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