AXIOS October 6, 2025
OpenAI’s new Sora app is sparking intense reactions — delighting some users and alarming others who see it as another tool undermining truth and human creativity.
The big picture: Despite the polarized response, the Sora moment is likely to be another step in society’s grudging adjustment to AI, akin to past reactions to ChatGPT’s image generator and, three years ago, to the debut of the chatbot itself.
Driving the news: The Sora app, released last Tuesday, has risen to the top of Apple’s App Store rankings, even as access to generate videos remains by invitation only.
- In a late Friday blog post, Sam Altman said that the company is going to “give rightsholders more granular control over generation of...
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