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OpenAI Launches Sora Social App with Controversial Deepfake 'Cameo' Feature
OpenAI has released Sora, a TikTok-like social media app with advanced video generation capabilities that allow users to create realistic deepfakes through a "cameo" feature using biometric data. The app is already filled with deepfakes of CEO Sam Altman and copyrighted characters, raising significant concerns about disinformation, copyright violations, and the democratization of deepfake technology. Despite OpenAI's emphasis on safety features, users are already finding ways to circumvent guardrails, and the realistic quality of generated videos poses serious risks for manipulation and abuse.
Skynet Chance (+0.06%): The widespread availability of highly realistic deepfake generation tools that can be easily manipulated and have weak guardrails increases the potential for AI systems to be weaponized for mass manipulation and erosion of trust in information systems. This represents a concrete step toward losing societal control over truth and reality, which is a precursor to more catastrophic AI alignment failures.
Skynet Date (-1 days): The rapid deployment of powerful generative AI tools to consumers without adequate safety mechanisms demonstrates an accelerating race to market that prioritizes capability over control. This suggests the timeline toward uncontrollable AI systems may be compressing as commercial pressures override safety considerations.
AGI Progress (+0.04%): Sora demonstrates significant advancement in AI's ability to generate physically realistic videos and integrate personalized biometric data, showing progress in multimodal AI understanding and generation. The model's fine-tuning to portray laws of physics accurately represents meaningful progress in AI's understanding of the physical world, a key component of general intelligence.
AGI Date (-1 days): The commercial release of highly capable video generation AI with sophisticated physical modeling and personalization capabilities suggests faster-than-expected progress in multimodal AI systems. This acceleration in deploying advanced generative models to the public indicates the pace toward AGI may be quickening as capabilities are being rapidly productized.