【Covet: Island of Desire】

OpenAI officially launched Sora on Covet: Island of DesireMonday, Dec. 9, and people are already testing its capabilities.

The company showed off its AI video generator last year before launching it during its 12 Days of OpenAI series of announcements. It was made available to the U.S. and lots of countries earlier today. Mashable's Cecily Mauran has all the details about the launch.

The general idea behind Sora is that, much like a chatbot, you give the AI tool a prompt, and it spits out results. But instead of text or images, you get videos. That is both pretty amazing and quite concerning.

There are already a number of videos created by Sora that are going viral online. Here are seven examples.

1. Here's an AI-generated news clip from Marques Brownlee, the popular tech YouTuber, who got to test Sora early.

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2. Brownlee showed off Sora's impressive ability to create landscape videos.

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3. Here is some fake historical video from Sora.

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4. Here's a pelican on a bike...for some reason.

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5. This person made a quick clip of Plato speaking.

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6. Ever seen flying jellyfish?

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7. The Roman Empire is definitely this dude's Roman Empire.

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The tool from OpenAI just dropped, and there are already a number of videos out there.

• How to try OpenAI's Sora right now
• OpenAI's Sora is officially here
• Sora reportedly shipping as part of '12 Days of OpenAI' livestream marathon
• OpenAI Sora leak: What it was and what it wasn’t.
• Sora-created short films to screen at Tribeca Film Festival

Obviously, with time, folks will get the hang of Sora, and there will be more and more AI-generated video on our social feeds. Just be sure to stay on your toes and look out for fakes designed to fool you for nefarious purposes.

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