The Hardest Part, a music video directed by Paul Trillo and produced entirely with OpenAI’s Sora, is now available for viewing.
The YouTube video was created for the chillwave artist Washed Out. The four-minute artificial Intelligence-generated footage consists of short zoom views over various scenes that are combined to create an unending moving shot.
According to the filmmaker, 55 pieces of footage were combined to create the music video for the premiere. Trillo said that he just made “minor touch-ups” and that he primarily handled the edits for the music video in response to users on X asking if he spent a lot of time editing the video.
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“I had this concept over ten years ago, but I never followed through on it. was able to finally make it come to life,” Trillo stated on X.
The release of the music video coincides with OpenAI’s pitch of Sora to major motion picture studios and other entertainment heavyweights. The AI startup has been actively setting up meetings with talent agencies, media executives, and Hollywood studios in Los Angeles. Their objective is quite clear: to establish collaborations and inspire filmmakers to incorporate Sora into their artistic workflows.
Additionally, OpenAI published a blog article showcasing Sora’s capabilities and outlining how creative designers, filmmakers, and artists can use Sora to create bizarre videos. New Sora-generated videos featuring short films and the creators’ opinions of the technology were posted on the blog by different visual artists and filmmakers.
This action suggests that the way that Hollywood, advertising, and other creative sectors approach content creation may be changing fundamentally.
What’s the future, and what are the controversies around OpenAI Sora?
A user’s text prompt can be converted into 60 seconds of high-definition video using the Sora large-scale AI model. Videos that already exist or written prompts can be used by the service to create new ones. The ability of AI models to produce images, sounds, and video has angered creators who believe their means of support are being jeopardized.
Mira Murati, the chief technological officer of OpenAI, stated in a recent interview that Sora would be accessible this year, maybe in “a few months.” She sidestepped the subject, though, seeming hesitant to get into the specifics of the data that Sora was trained on.
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She remarked, “I won’t go into the specifics of the data used, but it was either licensed or publicly available data.” When Murati expressed uncertainty about whether it included videos from Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube, she was ridiculed. She did, however, affirm that OpenAI has a collaboration with Shutterstock, from where Sora gets its content.
According to Murati, Sora is “much, much more expensive,” and depending on the complexity of the prompt, it could take several minutes to generate videos. “We don’t know what it’s going to look like exactly when we make it available to the public, but we’re trying to make it available at a similar cost to what we saw with DALL-E,” Murati continued.
Meanwhile, the New York Times, authors George R. R. Martin, John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, and comedian Sarah Silverman have filed multiple lawsuits against OpenAI for copyright infringement. The model has not been made available to the public yet, according to OpenAI, which says red teamers are testing it to find any potential flaws.
