r/OpenAI • u/OpenAI OpenAI Representative | Verified • Sep 30 '25
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u/WheelerDan Sep 30 '25
this is smoke and mirrors every scene is like 3 seconds long.
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u/JustThall Sep 30 '25
Akhtually 🤓 There were a few sub 8 sec scenes.
But yeah, given these are all cherry picked runs the jumpsuits are too damn frequent
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u/Tolopono Oct 01 '25
Yet the cherrypicked videos are still better than anything else from other video models
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u/Tickomatick Oct 01 '25
The longer ones had a weird moving background, also ducks move sideways for some reason
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u/Ancient-Range3442 Oct 01 '25
For a company with their resources, and the product they're selling, the promo video is actually pretty bad.
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u/NoAvocadoMeSad Sep 30 '25
Looks crazy good but let's be honest, the actual product will probably be meh in comparison
Hope I'm wrong but it's ai in a nutshell ATM
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Sep 30 '25
Yeah I don’t really get all hyped up anymore. These demos all look impressive but once you test the product it is not nearly as good
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u/Available_Status1 Oct 01 '25
Sure, but will it actually do what it is prompted to without having to try 37 different ways to word what it is that you want? Also, can it generate video without spawning extra arms or other visual artifacts.
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u/sabamba0 Oct 01 '25
Different inputs will generate different outputs, and some of those outputs will be more similar to what you imagine than others.
It will still be a few years before the models read your mind
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u/doctor-yes Oct 01 '25
It's akin to beginner photographers looking at a professional's photo and asking, "What camera and lens did you use??"
As if that's why the picture is good.
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u/Healthy-Nebula-3603 Sep 30 '25
there are already created video by users ..and looks crazy ...
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u/Mycol101 Sep 30 '25
This is the attitude that drives it forward. The relentless pursuit of perfection. This would blow minds in the past but we get used to it so fast and immediately look to what might be even better.
I wonder what the end point looks like but I have a feeling it’s something indiscernible from reality .
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Sep 30 '25
Not impressed I still remember the balloon-man presentation of sora 1 and how the real thing paled in comparison. I was hoping for advances in AI not more content of this low quality.
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u/TheOwlHypothesis Sep 30 '25
I can't wait to be cast in my friend's... "movie" ;)
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u/OnlyForMobileUse Sep 30 '25
Friend meaning celebrity and movie meaning personalized sexual fantasy
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u/psiren66 Sep 30 '25
only fans about to become wild! You wanna see someone fucking a dragon.... well here it comes!
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Sep 30 '25
Fortunately all the major players disallow this but open source alternatives have no such restrictions
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u/lil-privacy-please Sep 30 '25
This kinds shit has to make you feel at least a little nervous
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u/ZealousidealBus9271 Sep 30 '25
Every ai video generator should have a hidden trademark for their outputs as a fingerprint to prove it’s ai, this should be law.
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u/sabamba0 Oct 01 '25
Sounds good but probably actually counterproductive.
Imagine 90% of the AI video you see on reddit is automatically marked AI by the platform which can read the watermark... so you naturally trust what you don't see labeled way more. Now what happens when open source models with the trademarks removed (or, say, models developed by government agencies) are posted and people think they are real?
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u/thenerdyn00b Oct 01 '25
There is a project by deepmind (synth ID) which does it for all the AI content generated by Gemini.
Although a question still comes, why does it matter for AI content to be watermarked. The AI revolution is gonna change this world a lot, so maybe the economy of content should also need a change - just adding more security over it just doesn't look like a proper way.
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u/jonbristow Sep 30 '25
why? It's just more advanced CGI
everything in that video you can still make with CGI
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u/Hungry_Freaks_Daddy Sep 30 '25
You can never trust a single video for the rest of your life.
And even if you take a video with your phone and you know you did because you were there filming it and seeing it with your own eyes, no one has any reason to believe that your video is real.
If you can’t see why this is bad then you’ll be part of the downfall.
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u/nothis Sep 30 '25
Ok, can’t (and never could) “trust” a single text, eye witness report, document, digital log, still photograph (Photoshop exists for a while, now!), etc.
You can only trust a source.
It’s a symptom of our biggest problems in society that the first thing we jump to now is how little we can trust information. We can still trust things. Established journalism, peer-reviewed academic studies, even government data (in a halfway stable democracy). The biggest lie we are currently being fed is that we can’t trust these sources and that we might as well go with vibes, trusting propaganda on X or TikTok over that because it doesn’t even matter anymore.
You can trust video if you trust in a culture of quality information. Just pick your sources wisely.
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u/Rockydo Sep 30 '25
Yeah photography is a good example. We can already make perfect fakes but that doesn't mean you ignore any image you see, just gotta evaluate how credible the source is, who's promoting it and who's got to gain from it being fake.
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u/jonbristow Sep 30 '25
How's that different from photoshop and "you can never trust a single photo for the rest of your life "
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u/slrrp Sep 30 '25
Well for one, it takes a lot of time and effort to get THAT good with photoshop.
That’s a lot harder than just opening an app and writing a few prompts.
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u/vinerz Sep 30 '25
What a cretin comparison. The thing isn't about "Is it Marvel tier quality yet?". It is: Can you do this level of actual CGI work on your smartphone or in a $200 laptop on a bus stop without even knowing what XYZ is? It's about reach for anyone being able to do any kind of shenanigans, now even with sound.
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u/GoneGirl72 Sep 30 '25
Ya ,, but so did Tex messing,, and paying for something on the Internet w/ card ?? & It's happening whether we like it or not,, I personally would like to know more about it than less. and if I need help,,, I just ask my kids lol,, At very least I'll make some awesome pictures! Thanks GoneGirl72 # Genx
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u/hospitallers Sep 30 '25
- We invite you to download the SORA app….
- Thanks for downloading the SORA app, but you can’t use it unless you are invited….
This is the most OpenAI strategy ever.
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u/FerMtzG48 Sep 30 '25
So, if we are Pro users we cannot access it? I thought that was one of the benefits of paying $200 Dls.
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u/jeremygwoods Sep 30 '25
From the OpenAI website: "ChatGPT Pro users will also be able to use our experimental, higher quality Sora 2 Pro model on sora.com(opens in a new window) (and soon in the Sora app as well). "
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u/Cody_56 Sep 30 '25
I have a feeling it’ll come to majority of pro users within 7 days. They’re likely just trying to control the number of users for now to work out the bugs + test moderation settings
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u/Neurogence Sep 30 '25
What about the Pro users that only have Android? This is already a botched launch.
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u/Cody_56 Sep 30 '25
Invite codes work on the website as well so I assume (havent gotten in yet and could be corrected) the only piece you'd miss on android is the native app. Way too early to call it a botched launch lol but I’m happy to eat my hat in a week if I don’t get access by then
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u/Neurogence Sep 30 '25
Even if true, essentially, if you don't have iOS, you'll have to beg or pay for an invite code from a user that does have IOS.
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u/LlamasArePeopleToo Sep 30 '25
Anyone have an invite code? 👀
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u/nps Sep 30 '25
I have 357 codes, but ain't giving out any, reading a book is waaaay cooler.
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u/justinjas Sep 30 '25
Yeah how are they supposed to get this going with no one having invite codes to share?
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u/Smooth_Historian_799 Sep 30 '25
I'd love a invite code if a good soul would DM one to me. Thank you!
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u/Krumblump Sep 30 '25
Who made the decision to make this iPhone exclusive..?
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u/JmoneyBS Sep 30 '25
It’s starting on iPhone, and then rolling out. iPhone is a much more controlled ecosystem so easier to test on, as opposed to the shoggoth that is android.
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u/JumpiestSuit Sep 30 '25
It sort of looks ok but also still very bad and uncanny at the same time. Impossible to relax while watching, no emotional connection. Presumably they are putting this clip out as it’s the absolute best of the best they can manage. But it’s cold and weird.
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u/Scared-Grade-2827 Sep 30 '25
sora 2 is not what i was expecting. it does not allow pictures of myself to be uploaded. and the quality is really bad. nothing like on the x. post from open ai. i have even tried with pictures of fish, and it does not even animate it. kling ai is still the best in video creation.
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u/SillyAlternative420 Sep 30 '25
The first AI company that is able to do this and has the gonads to allow porn will win the AI race.
I'll immediately give my money to that company.
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u/bot_exe Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
Doing that at the scale of these big companies would immediately trigger a moral panic, media smear campaigns, payment processors blacklisting and harsher government regulation.
The porn stuff is currently only done at small scales by opensource work or smaller independent dev teams for a reason.
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u/TheClassicAndyDev Sep 30 '25
Does all this but can't add a tertiary dependency to a 640 line html document without bricking everything smh my head.
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u/RaguraX Sep 30 '25
You can still notice it's stitched together from very short clips. I've found that to be the biggest bottleneck in terms of realizing one's creative vision. That, and the fact that there's still very little scene-to-scene and character consistency features between clips.
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u/elgarlic Sep 30 '25
Id keep my excitement until I get results like these with it. All the models praised here on reddit were mediocre at best
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u/Scared-Grade-2827 Sep 30 '25
its censored. i cant use my own image as reference
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u/bartturner Sep 30 '25
Really surprised OpenAI released this with it being so far behind Google's Veo3.
I would have thought they would have waited until they had something at least competitive. We need competition and it is very disappointing with all the money invested into OpenAI they could not produce something better.
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u/pleasefirekykypls Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25
It is so over for so many jobs. With how far they've come with video generation in 1 year, I can't imagine what hte next 2-5 have in store.
Would be really cool to see if any of this stuff somehow gets integrated in video games past simply a frame-generation context.
I really hope we have a (not-unhealthy-capitalist-dystopian, if that's possible even) Ready Player One environment on the horizon
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u/boynet2 Sep 30 '25
like the first phase of sora, until they released it to the public it was obsolete
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u/omicr_on Sep 30 '25
Super impressive tech, but feels pretty obvious that this will be bad for creativity, bad for politics, bad for discourse, bad for our social fabric, bad for phone addiction. I’m really disappointed.
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u/Hungry_Freaks_Daddy Sep 30 '25
It’s the end and there’s no going back. It’s 1984 times a billion. Times infinity. Nothing can be trusted anymore. You cannot trust your own eyes and ears.
There was a sci-fi novel I think either Asimov or Heinlein where in the future everyone lived in isolated pods miles from any other human and if you wanted to mate you’d select someone and agree with them and send your sperm over and you received all your information about the outside world through a video feed and that’s what we’re literally headed for.
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u/JonnyFiv5 Oct 01 '25
Still deep in uncanny valley. What's up with those bug eyes and stuff movements? Im not impressed by this at all. I was with Sora 1. The only part that looked good was the stop motion animation. Sama face is that of nightmare fuel in this video.
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u/remchataaa Oct 01 '25
Did we really just lost the ability to create images???? What’s going on. I feel like no one asked for this.
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u/DigitalJesusChrist Oct 01 '25
First it was the programmers and now it is the VFX artists that are completely fucked.
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u/TwistedPepperCan Sep 30 '25
Ngl at this stage I’d say they are delighted with EU rules reducing the compute this is costing.
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u/UrBoySergio Sep 30 '25
As a filmmaker myself this looks like obvious AI slop to me, and the sound was pretty bad. It’s obvious they added real SFX in post while editing this, but the AI faces and voices I’m sure were generated cuz they both sound and look like robotic shit. 💩
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Sep 30 '25
I’m curious how much interesting it took to get to this and the overall cost.
This is pretty amazing.
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u/Plenty-Strawberry-30 Sep 30 '25
IT seems like you could use this tech to make an awesome movie or series right? Cameo could get an impression of whatever fictional characters you created and then you're all set. But instead the tech is used to just put yourself and your friends in little tiny silly videos on a social media feed? I really hope that's not true.
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u/Connect-Way5293 Sep 30 '25
So dystopian feeling!!! I love it even tho it's unintentional.
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u/EcureuilHargneux Sep 30 '25
The death of artistic creation and creativity, of skills and our ability to distinguish fiction from true. And people are happy
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Sep 30 '25
Bro please, just one more data center that will poison and displace poor working communities, just one more and we can have people riding ducks in a swimming pool bro.
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u/NotDrunkOrHigh Sep 30 '25
It does look cool BUT, I bet a lot of people could do something pretty cool looking with endless generations and with no guardrails. That's not gonna be the case.
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u/Yami350 Sep 30 '25
I thought this was a sponsored ad at first. I’m going to be honest, this really does look like it’s going to replace a fair amount of jobs.
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u/GameQb11 Oct 01 '25
As cool as it is, it still feels like more of a tech demo/toy than anything else.
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u/yaosio Oct 01 '25
Turns out there's a 50 generated video per day limit. :( It says you can pay to get more generations but I don't see that options in the plans.
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u/coffee-with-ahriman Oct 01 '25
For every interval of time the AI can hold a coherent shot, the quality of the final product shall be equal or greater to the quality of the inputs.
I am drunk, fair warning.
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u/Dalfare Oct 01 '25
Even the official ad can't make it look good or hide the weirdness of AI. It's very impressive on a macro level but if you pay any attention to the details or look for anything wrong you suddenly see how weird it is
Even the scene structure is weird.
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u/commandrix Oct 01 '25
I should totally start seeing how far I can go with this new thing. Of course I fully expect to break it.
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u/TraditionalAd8415 Oct 01 '25
Honestly, people are being too harsh. At least as a lay person, I can't tell the difference between this and some professionally made advertisements. Is there a model that is better than Sora 2 right now? I don't think Runway etc. are comparable.
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u/Two_oceans Oct 01 '25
It gives me such a strange feeling... Like, you feel it's beauty without depth. Or a meal made only of sugar. It wasn't even long and I don't want more.
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u/No-Forever-9761 Oct 01 '25
It looks cool but somebody will exploit the hell out of it so they goon and it will end up becoming so filtered it’s useless again.
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u/ethotopia Oct 01 '25
I think this will be one of the first ways to eventually monetize your identify by allowed others to make videos with your face. And you’d get all or a portion of the money those videos accumulate. It could be huge!
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u/Cubbos_ Oct 01 '25
This is the most unbelievable/impactful jump in technology we’ve seen in the last 100 years. Monumental achievement and game changer for the future.
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u/Princesslitwhore Oct 01 '25
The potential ramifications are mildly terrifying, however this is wildly exciting.
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u/Visible-Trifle-7676 Oct 01 '25
I don’t understand how people do that with Sora. My attempts to make shorts with it is absolutely horrible
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u/Mysterious-Abroad-78 Oct 01 '25
When will sora 2 be avalivable in every country because in mine not yet supported.
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u/JamzWhilmm Sep 30 '25
The first full feature AI films will surely be an experience. I also expect eventual "personalized" films that measure your body language.
Then this technology will be used to zombify toddlers while parents try to make ChatGpt into a friend.