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OpenAI apparently assumes that the primary users of Sora 2/the Sora app will be Gen Z, especially with the demo examples shown in the livestream. If they are trying to pull users from TikTok with this, it won't work: there's some nuance to Gen Z interests than being quirky and random, and if they did indeed pull users from TikTok then ByteDance could easily include their own image/video generators.

Sora 2 itself as a video model doesn't seem better than Veo 3/Kling 2.5/Wan 2.2, and the primary touted feature of having a consistent character can be sufficiently emulated in those models with an input image.

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Good point. I think OpenAI lacks the cultural understanding that tiktok is providing their users not only with entertainment but also social things like trends, reviews, gossip, self-expression. These aspects are not included in the sora experience.

This is going to sound crass but idc - OAI is just full of geeks, when what is needed is people who are more akin to hippies - thats pretty much what Apple was in the early days.

Its no use building technology when its not married with the humanities and liberal arts.

IMO you're making a valid point, because there seems to be a disconnect between AI and tangible human benefits. The ChatGPT-as-therapy train has been nerfed after the bad publicity, and it is force-fed to people at their workplaces through copilot.

I assume if you ask normal people how AI affects their lifes they'd think about annoying callcenter menus, deep fake porn and propaganda videos, and getting homework done. Not sure if any of this is a positive experience for the mind.

It's 2025 and most speech controls for car navigation don't work, Siri is a pile of sh*t and millionaires are trying to convince us that we should either use their AI or a google which has significantly reduced the quality of their search result pages.

It's like a false choice dilemma which allows back-to-the-roots companies such as Kagi to emerge, and I'm happy about it.

My comment, to my surprise, has received a lot of up-votes lol.

Completely agree. The way I think about life is - how will people look back 50 years from now, and make remarks about what is happening?

Physics seems better than veo 3 at least from demo videos

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