OpenAI’s new AI tool generating surreal videos from text prompts sparks concerns

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy OpenAI has unveiled a new tool to make ultra-realistic artificial intelligence-generated videos from text inputs, sparking concerns about such AI systems being misused to manipulate voters ahead of elections. The AI tool, named Sora, can be used to create videos of up to 60 seconds with “highly detailed scenes, complex camera motion, and multiple characters with vibrant emotions,” the ChatGPT company said in a blog post on Thursday. “My biggest concern is how this content could be used to trick, manipulate, phish, and confuse the general public,” ethical hacker Rachel Tobac, a member of the technical advisory council of the US government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, posted on X. AI scams on the rise Even though OpenAI acknowledged risks associated with the widespread use of the tool, stating it was “taking several important safety steps ahead of making Sora available in OpenAI’s products, Ms Tobac said she was “still concerned”. In the context of elections, she said such a tool may be misused to show “unimaginably long lines in bad weather” to convince people it’s not worth it to head out to vote.