OpenAI's Sora Made Me Crazy AI Videos—Then the CTO Answered (Most of) My Questions | WSJ

OpenAI’s new text-to-video AI model Sora can create some very realistic scenes. How does this generative AI tech work? Why does it mess up sometimes? When will it be released to the public? What data was it trained on?

WSJ’s Joanna Stern sat down with OpenAI CTO Mira Murati to find out.

Chapters:
0:00 OpenAI’s Sora
1:08 Reviewing Sora’s videos
4:03 Optimizing and training Sora
6:42 Concerns around Sora
8:55 Identifying Sora videos

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[elithecomputerguy]

The CTO can't talk about where the training data came from...

[DevineLuLinvega]

"I can neither confirm nor deny that we trained on youtube videos"

[EggEggEggg]

The fact that she dodged that question about the training data isn't very "Open"AI of her.

[jolness]

The vagueness of her response about what was used from the CTO shows she definitely knows they’re using copyrighted content imo.

[TripleMachine]

4:50 She's smart enough to know where the models came from and she's hesitant to say because of potential lawsuits.

[punk]

It's like asking a farmer: - Where do you take your apples from? Do you pick them from trees?
- I dont know. If they grow on trees, perhaps yes.

[acer-star]

Remember the Super Phrase: *Publicly available data*

[sdf]

I cannot express how wild it seems to me that the *CTO* of one of the biggest genAI companies, promoting their latest genAI product couldn't answer what data the model was trained on.

[revestrek]

I´m so glad this interviewer asked some real questions, Im sick of all the shallow questions over naive smiles. AI can be good, but also dangerous. It´s important we understand how serious it is, and train and use it carefully.

[Outcaster]

The way she dodged over and over the question about the training data, clearly their are not using only publicly available data.

[official_youtube]

"My prompt for this crab said nothing about a mustache" is the most 2024 sentence ever.

[unmonged]

this is a product i made that i am very proud of. i'm the spokesperson of the product and was sent here to speak specificity about the product only.
"how did i make my product", you ask? i don't know.

[discoverymoi]

You should’ve asked Sora to make 10 people playing rock paper scissors in fast pace. 😂

[zivzulander]

I'm not going to lie, I spent half the video with my eyes darting to Mira's hands just to make sure she's real 😅

[SerenityReceiver]

The CTO isn't sure if youtube training data was used???

[marttiekstrand]

As Sora can create "cartoon animation" OpenAI should show their list of animation production companies who have licensed their films to be used in the machine learning model. There's not much animation is available in public domain, especially 3D animation.

[Jay-rrme]

What’s the point of replacing creativity we don’t want to live in a world where nothing is creative

[ishaankelkar]

the questions asked in this interview were really good -- concise and hitting all of the important points. thank you for this informative video

[mrtang]

Joanna Stern is the best! Love how she grilled her about the training data - super awkward response 😂

[xiphoid]

In my 40s now, looking back, I am amazed at the acceleration of technological innovation. It's now it's almost impossible to imagine what computing will be like in just 2-3 years.