Why OpenAI is only letting some Sora users create videos of real people

OpenAI launched its video-generating tool, Sora, on Monday. But the company’s opting not to release a key feature for most users pending further testing.

The feature in question generates a video using an uploaded photo or footage of a real person as a reference. OpenAI says that it’ll give a “subset” of Sora users access to it, but that it won’t roll out the capability broadly until it has a chance to fine-tune its “approach to safety.”

“The ability to generate a video using an uploaded photo or video of a real person as the ‘seed’ is a vector of potential misuse that we are taking a particularly incremental approach toward to learn from early patterns of use,” OpenAI wrote in a blog post. “Early feedback from artists indicate that this is a powerful creative tool they value, but given the potential for abuse, we are not initially making it available to all users.”

OpenAI also won’t let users share generated videos containing clips or images of real people to Sora’s homepage discovery feed.

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