Why does so much new technology feel inspired by dystopian sci-fi movies?
NEW YORK TIMES
A popular icebreaker involves asking which historical figures you’d like to have dinner with. Sora 2, the new video generator from OpenAI, suggests another option: Which historical figures would you like to see kill each other?
The platform will produce short A.I. videos of almost anything users prompt it to — an ability that might, in some other world, unleash a flowering of human imagination.
In ours, though, the typical Sora clip tends to feel like a mash-up of familiar sensationalist media, with influences including the crude conceits of old daytime talk shows, the improbable brain-rot formulas on YouTube — and, of course, fights.
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