Could OpenAI’s financial future hinge on teens making deepfakes?

If a new California ballot measure passes, it could block OpenAI’s conversion to a for-profit corporation, potentially severing its lifeline to a $1 trillion IPO. To justify its massive valuation without Wall Street, OpenAI may lean even more heavily on engagement on its consumer-facing platforms, like Sora2. Instrumental and Ekō's recent research into how Sora2 enables harm shows why this could be a bad idea. For everybody.