Honest question: What problem does this solve?

Thing that was previously very expensive, manual and took a long time to do, and is done A LOT, is now made faster and cheaper by computers.

Pretty much the same problem we all work on every day in $DAY_JOB.

Fun and games until someone uses a tool like this to scam your family

It's ok, they're making the market for anti-ai tools much much bigger. (whether those tools work or not is a different issue)

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It facilitates the generation of political propaganda.

OpenAI needing something to show to investors to say "See, this is why we need $1T."

What problem does what solve? Video generation models in general or Sora 2 specifically?

Liberation of employers from the shackles of their employees