OpenAI’s Sora 2 Unleashes Copyright Chaos ©️

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OpenAI is reversing course on how it approaches copyright and intellectual property in its new video app Sora, after the platform was flooded with AI videos featuring famous film and game characters.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Chart of the week: The Journey to OpenAI’s Staggering $500B Valuation

• OpenAI Reverses Course After Sora Sparks Copyright Controversy

• Free Resources

• AI tools to check out

• Video of the week

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Chart of the week

The Journey to OpenAI’s Staggering $500B Valuation

• The chart shows OpenAI’s rapid valuation climb, based on data compiled from press reports and funding disclosures.

• Just a few days ago, OpenAI became the world’s most valuable private technology company, surpassing SpaceX, Stripe, and ByteDance, and far exceeding the $300 billion valuation it held only months earlier.

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OpenAI Reverses Course After Sora Sparks Copyright Controversy

OpenAI rolled out Sora 2 just earlier this week, and it seems copyright wasn’t much of a concern for the company, at least not until recently.

Details:

• After its launch on September 30, several users demonstrated that the model could easily generate videos featuring copyrighted material, such as characters from games, shows, or movies like Pikachu, Mario Bros., and even full episodes of South Park.

• The situation appears to have prompted copyright holders to respond quickly and forcefully, as users have reported that over the past couple of days Sora has begun tightening restrictions, with prompts referencing well-known copyrighted material now apparently blocked.

• In a blog post released late Friday, Sam Altman acknowledged the issue and said that rights holders will soon have more control over the use of their characters in Sora. He also announced plans for a revenue-sharing model to compensate creators when their content is generated using Sora.

This isn’t the first time OpenAI has faced controversy over its creative tools, as earlier this year the company sparked debate over “Studio Ghibli–style” images generated by its image model. Just like back then, OpenAI seems to have leveraged the attention to boost visibility, as the Sora app quickly shot to the top of the Apple App Store charts.

Given the company’s history with similar controversies, it is now receiving even harsher criticism, with some suggesting it may have allowed the issue to unfold deliberately despite already facing ongoing lawsuits over AI-generated content.

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AI Findings/Resources

🤭 A new trend is going viral on TikTok where people text their parents and use AI to make them think they’ve brought a homeless person into the house

🤨 It seems to be impossible to delete a Sora account without deleting your ChatGPT account

✈ The perils of letting AI plan your next trip

🔬 AI is dreaming up millions of new materials. Are they any good?

🤔 Assume an AI bubble. What difference would it make?

AI Tools to check out

📽 Sora: Turn text prompts and images into hyperreal videos with sound.

💥 Nothing Playground: Create apps with simple text prompts.

📷 Photoroom: AI photo editor.

🎬 TaleTok: Create viral faceless shorts automatically.

☄️ Comet: AI browser that acts as a personal assistant.

Video of the week

Elon Musk on the Future of the Optimus Robot, AGI, Life on Mars, and More

An interview with Elon Musk discussing his ambitious plans for his major companies, covering the frontiers of AI, robotics, and space.

He details the critical engineering challenges and immense potential of the Optimus humanoid robot, which he believes will be the "greatest product ever created by humanity."

Musk shares his predictions about the rapid development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), suggesting that AI could surpass all human intelligence within the next decade, and provides updates on the Starship rocket and his timeline for establishing a self-sustaining city on Mars, which he views as essential for the long-term survival of consciousness.

You can find the timestamps under the video description so you can navigate directly to the topics that interest you.

2:47 Optimus: Progress and potential, the “hands problem”

12:20 Tesla: AI5 chips, impact on FSD

16:50 SpaceX: Vision for Starlink-enabled smartphones, $17B spectrum deal, Starship update

26:16 xAI: Next-gen Grok models, Colossus 2, scaling laws, “Grokipedia”

37:36 Understanding the universe, going to the Moon, what happens on Mars?

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