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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Dara Kerr

OpenAI launch of video app Sora plagued by violent and racist images: ‘The guardrails are not real’

Image of smartphone with blue and white Sora logo.
‘In a video documented by 404 Media, SpongeBob was dressed like Adolf Hitler.’ Photograph: Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

OpenAI launched the latest iteration of its artificial intelligence-powered video generator on Tuesday, adding a social feed that allows people to share their realistic videos.

Within hours of Sora 2’s, release, though, many of the videos populating the feed and spilling over to older social media platforms depicted copyrighted characters in compromising situations as well as graphic scenes of violence and racism. OpenAI’s own terms of service for Sora as well as ChatGPT’s image or text generation prohibit content that “promotes violence” or, more broadly, “causes harm”.

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