Amid backlash to the new AI-generated video product, OpenAI’s CEO says the company is trying to pay for more computing power. Meta launched its own version this week.
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OpenAI and Meta both released AI-generated video feeds this week, sparking debate on social media about whether it’s the best use of the costly, energy-intensive technology.
While the videos are impressive in their image quality and capabilities, they raise the question, “Did anyone ask for this?” Meta is calling its product Vibes, while OpenAI released a next-gen version of its video creator, Sora 2, via a TikTok-style video app for iOS.
“Sora 2 looks impressive”, says one X user. “What’s even more impressive is how little I care to watch anything made using it.”
The social media lingo for this type of AI-generated content is “slop”, which loosely means generic, soulless, and optimized for quantity, not quality. However, others are more supportive, finding it a fun distraction and creative project. Clearly, it’s caught on in some fashion, given the number of videos users are posting to social media and the conversation it’s created.
One person called out OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for launching such a frivolous product after his CNBC interview last week, in which he claimed the company’s mission is to achieve sufficient computing power to cure cancer and attain “artificial general intelligence” (AGI).
