OpenAI Is Being Too Secretive About Its New Video Generator

It has disclosed too little about a tool that can play havoc with polls

Every new OpenAI announcement sparks awe and terror. Late last week, the maker of ChatGPT dropped its latest new gizmo, a text-to-video model called Sora that can create up to a minute of high-quality video. Cue a flood of remarkable AI clips going viral on social media, while stock video producers, filmmakers, actors and some startup founders likely fretted about their livelihoods.

AI video-generation has been around for more than a year, but Sora's examples look more realistic than previous efforts. The glitches are harder to spot and the humans look more human.

As usual, OpenAI won't talk about the all-important ingredients that went into this new tool, even as it releases it to an array of people to test before going public.

OpenAI needs to be more public about the data used to train Sora, and less secretive about the tool itself, given the capabilities it has to disrupt industries and potentially elections.

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said that red-teaming of Sora would start last Thursday, the day the tool was announced and shared with beta testers.