New text-to-video AI model Sora will unleash creative potential but requires ‘extreme accountability’

The new Sora artificial intelligence (AI) program has obvious pitfalls, but experts highlighted the benefits of the new tech while acknowledging the need for greater safeguards and public education on its use. 

“While the rapid advancement of Al video generation is a remarkable technological breakthrough worthy of recognition, we must also acknowledge the profound challenges this innovation presents to the social media ecosystem and information environment as a whole,” Jake Denton, Research Associate at the Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center, told Fox News Digital. 

“Consumer-facing platforms are currently unprepared to handle the inevitable influx of hyperrealistic synthetic video content enabled by tools of this caliber,” Denton added. 

OpenAI recently announcedits new Sora text-to-video model, presenting a new and radical step forward for content creation. The company proudly touted the model’s ability to “generate complex scenes with multiple characters, …