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''' OPENAI'S* JOB OPENINGS '''

A SORA VIDEO OF MIKE PLAYING the psychopathic character from Anton Chigurh from the 2007 film : '' No Country for Old Men,'' she had a very simple request : '' Please, never, never ever show me this kind of video again.''

WE - THE TWO AUTHORS OF THIS ARTICLE - spent hours scrolling through a feed of short-term videos that featured ourselves in different scenarios.

In one hyper-realistic nine-second video we were shown skydiving [and grinning] with pizzas as parachutes.

In another, Eli has a game-winning home run in a baseball stadium full of robots. In yet another, Mike was caught in a ''Matrix'' - stylel due against Ronald McDonald, using cheeseburgers as weapons.

'' I'm genuinely blown away,'' Eli messaged Mike about the cheeseburger video, before liking the content. Mike kept sending videos - which included him ballroom dancing with his dog and sitting on a throne of rats - to other New York Times colleagues [ all of whom found the clips slightly disturbing ].

The app we used was not TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts, the current leaders of short-form videos.

It was Sora, a smartphone app made by OpenAI that lets people create such videos entirely from artificial intelligence. 

Sora's underlying technology debuted last year, but its latest version - which is faster and more powerful and can incorporate your likeness if you upload images of your face - was released on an invitation-only basis late last month.

 After we-spent less than a day with the app, what became clear to us was that Sora had gone beyond being an A.I. video-generation app. Instead, it is, in effect, a social network in disguise; a clone of TikTok down to its user interface, algorithmic video suggestions and ability to follow and interact with friends.

The powerful A.I. model that Sora is built on makes it simpler to produce clips, giving people an almost unlimited ability to generate as many A.I. videos as they want. It was also disconcerting.

Almost instantly, Sora's early-access users were spinning up videos made with copyrighted material picked from pop culture. [ We saw more ''Rick & Morty'' and Pikachu videos than we would have liked ].

And when Mike posted one Sora video to his personal Instagram page, a half-dozen friends asked if it was him in the video, raising questions about whether we might lose touch with reality.

WORSE STILL, being able to quickly and easily generate videos likenesses of people could pour gasoline on disinformation, creating clips of fake events that look so real that they might spur people into real-world action.

While some of this was already possible with other A.I. video generators, Sora could turbocharge it.

It is early days, and there is no guarantee Sora will have legs. But OpenAI appears to have created the type of product that companies like Meta and X have sought to build : a way to bring A.I. to the masses that people can share, enticing one another to create posts and regularly use their apps and services.

The race to create similar apps is heating up. Meta released a social media feed in its dedicated A.I. app called Vibes, which uses an A.I. video generator from the start-up Midjourney. Google hosts Veo, its version of a similar product.

With the social internet moving people from sharing text messages to posting photos and now to watching billions of hours of video, tech executive says A.I. video tools will be formative to the next generation of social media.

'' We feel that the best way to bring this technology to the masses is through something that is somewhat social,'' Rohan Sahai, OpenAI's product lead for Sora, said in an interview.

'' When you have such drastically shifting technology - a new form actor, even - our goal and philosophy as a company is to get it out there.''

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on Times To Come, continues. The World Students Society thanks Mike Issac and Eli Tan.

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