Miguel Afonso Caetano"Thanks to everyone who participated in this grotesque scare-campaign, everybody I know in the film industry has been freaking out because every third headline about Sora 2 said that it would quickly replace actors and directors. The majority of coverage of Sora 2 acted as if we were mere minutes from it replacing all entertainment and all video-based social media, even though the videos themselves were only a few seconds long and looked like shit!
Sora 2 was never “challenging Hollywood” or “a threat to actors and directors,” it was a way to barf out videos that looked very much like Sora 2’s training data, and the reason you could only generate a few seconds at a time was these models started hallucinating stuff very quickly, because that’s what Large Language Models do.
Yet this is what the AI bubble is — poorly-substantiated media-driven hype cycles that exploit a total lack of awareness or willingness to scrutinize the powerful. Sora 2 was always a dog, it always looked like shit, it never challenged Hollywood, it never actually threatened the livelihoods of actors or directors or DPs or screenwriters outside of the tiny brains of studio executives that don’t watch or care about movies. Anybody that published a scary story about the power of Sora 2 helped needlessly spread panic through the performing arts, and should feel deep, unbridled shame."
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