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Sora 2 launched to doomsday headlines. How bad is it really?

Poynter · Angela Fu · last updated

It’s been almost three weeks since OpenAI launched Sora 2, the latest AI tool that lets anyone generate and share videos of just about anything — with only limited restrictions.

The potential for trouble was obvious from the start. Within hours, users created racist depictions of Martin Luther King Jr., videos of Pikachu being barbecued and SpongeBob posing as Adolf Hitler.

I was curious about whether Sora 2 has proven to be a greenhouse of deception, as many feared, or if its effects have been more muted so far. So I reached out to PolitiFact reporter Loreben Tuquero and MediaWise director Alex Mahadevan, both members of Poynter’s new AI Innovation Lab, to hear about their experiences.

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