News Summary

• OpenAI’s new text-to-video app, Sora, was supposed to be a social AI playground.
• It allows users to create imaginative AI videos of themselves, friends and celebrities.
• But experts worry about its potential to deluge the internet with historical misinformation and deepfakes of deceased historical figures who cannot consent to or opt out of AI models.
• In less than a minute, the app can generate short videos of deceased celebrities in situations they were never in: Aretha Franklin making soy candles, Carrie Fisher trying to balance on a slackline.