So a social network that's 100% your friends doing silly AI things?
I feel like this is the ultimate extension of "it feels like my feed is just the artificial version of what's happening my friends and doesn't really tell me anything about how they're actually faring."
Social media also tends to highlight the best parts of people’s lives, creating unrealistic expectations and views for those consuming it and looking at their real life. Now social media won’t even be a highlight reel, but completely fabricated.
I have to imagine there will be a rebellion against all of this at some point, when people simply can’t take the false realities anymore. What is the alternative? Ready Player One? The Matrix? Wall-E?
Which seem to level the play field, at least virtually
Maybe inside of a social network specially for AI, but a concerning number of people don't realize images and videos are AI, even when it's bad AI. As it gets better, and starts integrating the poster's image (like Sora 2), that's going to get even worse.
Some people use filters/photoshop to artificially juice their images; now they can use AI to artificially juice every aspect of their on-line presence.
I just watched the announcement video and something about it just gives me the ick. The whole time I just had the uncanny valley feeling.
The technology itself is super impressive, but a social media app of AI slop doesn't feel like the best use of it. I'm old enough to not really be interested in social media in general anymore, so maybe I'm just out of touch, but I just can't see this catching on. It feels like the type of thing that people will download, use a few times until the novelty wears off and then never open again.
Sounds like a way to make everybody aware of Sora and its capabilities.
I bet the real goal is to make money from long tail of corporate market ( ads, info videos etc).
I built an MVP of this [1] with images (not video) and in more of an Instagram style (not tiktok) back in ‘22, with the tagline ‘What if social media were literally fake?’
I am bullish on this, albeit with major concerns in many domains. It was fun and addictive as hell with images. With video it will be wild.
[1] https://hardwork.party/cheese/