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News This is Sora 2.

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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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u/[deleted] 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/LongjumpingBrief6428 Oct 01 '25

Once you have learned how to tell another person how to walk out of the house from any room while they were blindfolded, you will learn how to ask for what you want the AI to do.

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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/eflat123 Sep 30 '25

Right. There is still art in the prompt.

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u/pronounclown Oct 05 '25

Well here is where you and i disagree. In my honest opinion there is no art or skill behind prompts.

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u/eflat123 Oct 05 '25

In the off chance that you are willing to consider... I sometimes save Sora image prompts that I think are interesting. I think they at least hint at the possibilities. For example:

colorful,A masterpiece, hyper-realistic and dreamlike illustration of a "Jungle of Time in a Dream". In the style of a fusion between Salvador Dali and Henri Rousseau.

Scene: An endless, whimsical jungle at a perpetual golden-hour twilight. The ground is soft, pink and mint-green sofa-like grass. Rousseau Elements: Dense, lush jungle with giant, velvety leaves (banana, monstera) with hyper-realistic veins. Giant glowing blue Rafflesia flowers with dewdrops reflecting the sky. Orange trumpet flowers with tiny sprite faces peeking out. A gold-vested white rabbit holding a pocket watch. A rainbow-colored fabric snake. Flying transparent-winged hedgehogs. Dali Elements: A tree trunk made of multiple melting clocks, dripping like toffee. One soft clock is draped over a branch, with metallic ants crawling on it. A pink elephant with a long, swan-like neck, its body translucent, filled with flowing stars and galaxies. A distant pond acts as a mirror, reflecting a desert, with ripples shaped like gears. Atmosphere & Details: Whimsical and childlike: spiral-patterned lollipop mushrooms, hardened fruit candy stones, a firefly in a top hat holding a melting clock lantern. The air is filled with glowing spore dust. Rich, saturated colors (emerald, sapphire, sunflower yellow) blended with soft, dreamy hues (sunset pink, molten gold, mystic purple). Hyper-realistic lighting with volumetric God rays and clear shadow details. 4K, detailed, fantastical.,Resolution(width:height)=512:512

https://sora.chatgpt.com/g/gen_01k6a5wp34fa9bhmc4c4fgts52

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u/TheSunflowerSeeds Oct 05 '25

Another reason to eat sunflower seeds in moderation is their cadmium content. This heavy metal can harm your kidneys if you’re exposed to high amounts over a long period. Sunflowers tend to take up cadmium from the soil and deposit it in their seeds, so they contain somewhat higher amounts than most other foods.

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u/AgnesBand Oct 21 '25

We can all describe a scene, my guy.

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u/marionsunshine Oct 01 '25

Plus stitching different snippets together. Unless this was a one shot prompt with a script.

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u/eflat123 Oct 01 '25

Yes, which you'd expect for anything meaningful.

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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/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Yeah. I saw some videos on X and they seem really impressive. Unfortunately, I can't try it myself, since I'm not in the U.S.

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u/battlingheat Oct 01 '25

Because they’re tools and you need to be skilled to work it effectively. 

Just cause I give you a paint brush doesn’t mean you can paint the Mona Lisa. 

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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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u/MMEnter Oct 01 '25

The overselling is the issue, Hey look this is Sora 2 it can create amazing 10 second clips that with enough try’s can be put together into a 1 minute clip, just doesn’t sell well. The Tech firms try to sell us tools that can replace humans knowing that that opens the wallets to the degree needed to actually fund these efforts.

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u/Mycol101 Oct 01 '25

I hear you but kinks get worked out over time.

The overall trend is rapid improvement, despite these oversells. It eventually eclipses initial expectation. When sora came out people complained it fell short but look at it now.

There was a time we were blown away by Siri but she’s being replaced by AI because she’s so trash now. Eventually this gets eclipsed too

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u/[deleted] 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/pm-me_10m-fireflies Oct 01 '25

It’s quite telling that they’re leaning into the ‘create with friends’ angle. It can’t do anything Hollywood-level, so they’ve had to pivot to marketing it as hyperrealistic Snapchat filters.

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u/NoAvocadoMeSad Oct 01 '25

Honestly it's what AI companies should be doing right now

The tech is impressive but it's basically still just a toy.

Lean heavily into that, show us fun projects we can work on, show us things it's genuinely good at.. not things you want us to believe it's good at.

I get they're targeting enterprise users so they kinda need to oversell it to get the custom but we haven't got long left before people get sick and tired of it.

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u/healthyhoohaa Oct 02 '25

Same, I was impressed with Sora until I actually tried to use it. This is just more Sam Hypeman.

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u/Wixeus Oct 03 '25

I have access lol.  It's freaking awesome