If you've spent enough time online this past month, you've probably noticed a sudden upticket, unsettling, realistic, AI-generated videos.

Maybe it's body cam footage of Super Mario in his cart being pulled over by police and then yelling,

I can't get another ticket before peeling out.

Or a horse on skis,

competing in a freestyle skiing competition, or Bob Ross wrestling, Abraham Lincoln.

These were all generated by OpenAI's Blockbuster video generation model, Thora 2,

which allows you to create videos simply by describing them in words.

Open AI, however, has gone one step further and bundled up access to this model in a new app that they call simply Dora that operates like TikTok.

You can easily create videos and share them.

You can view other people's creations and there's an algorithmically

curated feed just like you would see on TikTok. So you can have a steady incoming feed of

grade A high octane lop. The online world is usually pretty excited about new AI products,

but the reaction to SORA has been more interesting. People online seem, to put it simply, unsettled.

I want to play a clip here.

Here's Casey Nystatt reacting to the new SORA app.

My analysis, we are so completely...

And now here is

vlogger Hank Green

venting some of his own frustrations

oh humanity

if you're the kind of motherfucker who will

create slop talk you are not

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