OpenAI’s Sora has already hit more than 1 million downloads

OpenAI’s societal AI video-generating app, Sora, has reached implicit 1 cardinal downloads successful less than 5 days since its launch. That’s according to Sora caput Bill Peebles, who said connected Wednesday that Sora racked up downloads faster than ChatGPT did astatine motorboat contempt being an invite-only app.

The institution launched its caller Sora app for iOS connected September 30th, giving users the quality to scroll done a provender of AI-generated videos, arsenic good arsenic make ones of their ain utilizing OpenAI’s caller Sora 2 model. It besides lets users insert the likeness of themselves oregon a person into an AI video with a “cameos” feature. My colleague Hayden Field recovered that the app is filled with memes, OpenAI employees deepfaking themselves, and what tin lone beryllium described arsenic AI-generated slop.

Already, the Sora app has sparked backlash aft users began generating copyrighted characters successful circumstances acold from brand-friendly, starring OpenAI to give those copyright holders much control implicit their content. The institution has started letting users specify however their likeness is utilized successful Sora arsenic well.

“Team moving hard to support up with surging growth,” Peebles said. “More features and fixes to overmoderation connected the way!” The Sora app is lone disposable successful the US and Canada for now, and currently sits astatine the apical of Apple’s App Store.