 | Hopes of new tech’s cultural benefits are shattered by a deluge of tasteless videos, writes The Telegraph Senior Technology Reporter Matthew Field “I hope Nintendo doesn’t sue us,” says Sam Altman as he appears on OpenAI’s new Sora app in a virtual field full of Pokémon. Bizarre and lifelike in equal measure, the AI clip was just one example of the videos on the company’s new TikTok-style platform. Released in the US last month, Sora is an AI video-creating app that has been catapulted to the top of download charts as users scramble to see how far they can push OpenAI’s creative guardrails. Read more: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/10/12/superintelligence-ai-slop-openai-pokemon/ [link] [comments] |
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