When OpenAI launched Sora 2, I couldn’t wait to try it. The app promised cinematic video generation powered by next-level AI, and everyone online was raving about it — that is, anyone who had managed to score an invite code. I like watching people log on to Sora 2 for the first time and seeing their expression as they scroll through what seems like endless 10-second videos that all seem to blob together to encourage endless scrolling. But after a few days of using Sora 2, I realized something surprising — Sora 2 hurts my brain.
The issue isn’t the technology, because the videos are all pretty good; it’s the experience. Sora 2 has turned AI video generation into a social platform of AI slop. There’s a feed, a comment section, likes, remixes — all the trappings of TikTok. And that’s the problem.
