[crucialfelix]

> It seems like OpenAI is trying to turn Sora into a social network - TikTok but AI.

That's a direct copy of what Midjourney has done already.

https://www.midjourney.com/explore?tab=videos

Many people are just playing with images and the distinctive styles that Midjourney (the model) seems to have developed. It's also trained by ratings and people's interactions.

When you make images you can dial down the "aesthetic".

[zain37]

This app might top the charts via hype initially but I can't see why someone would stick with it long-term compared to other alternatives. Plus creators would have to pay soon to make these videos, what are they getting back? Unless they can make money via this

[kelvinjps10]

Free access to openAI tools?

[ipaddr]

These creators can make millions on other platforms.

[echelon]

After seeing the results of Sora 2, Meta and Midjourney are not yet competing at this level.

This is the "Suno" moment for video.

It's easy to make a really compelling composition. Something even Google Veo couldn't do.

It's not the best looking video model, but it has everything else -- rich editing, good voices and lipsync, music and lyrics, animation (cartoon, 3D, anime), SFX. It's wild.

The videos aren't single clips but rather complete beginning-middle-end stories that unfold over several cuts.

[timdiggerm]

That's interesting, but how many people are actually going to just scroll and watch these (thereby generating ad revenue)?

[crucialfelix]

They don't have ads, it's paid members only. You can see other people's images, including the prompts, so it's an interesting way to learn what works, and to mutate prompts and images. There are many ways of recombining or breeding images.

They have an onboarding flow where you rate images and it tunes into your aesthetic preferences. You can create mood boards for specific projects.

So I would say it's more community than social media.

[timdiggerm]

Yeah, and definitely not AITok

[j45]

That's one way to build a database of verified Gen AI content to help filter it out.