Sora 2 allows users to create hyper-realistic AI social media videos using text prompts. Mike Isaac, New York Times Silicon Valley correspondent, joins "The Daily Report" to discuss what's changed since the latest update and NIL concerns.

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OpenAI's Sora 2 platform, which enables users to create hyper-realistic AI videos from text prompts, initially allowed the use of intellectual property unless rights holders opted out. This approach drew criticism from major film studios and talent agencies, who raised concerns about unauthorized use of celebrity likenesses and copyrighted characters. In response, OpenAI switched to an opt-in policy, requiring explicit permission from rights holders before their intellectual property can be used in Sora 2.

Despite this policy change, users have found ways to generate content that resembles famous characters without directly copying them, raising ongoing questions about fair use and legal boundaries. While discussions between OpenAI and entertainment industry stakeholders continue, the platform's ability to create lookalike content remains a point of contention.

How OpenAI's Sora 2 has changed since its initial release

Last month, we took a look at some of the concerns the entertainment industry has expressed about OpenAI's new artificial intelligence platform, Sora 2. The app allows users to create hyper-realistic AI social media videos using text prompts. Major talent agencies and film studios immediately sounded the alarm over how their celebrity clients' likenesses, films, and characters may be used in Sora-generated videos. My colleague Kelly O'Grady spoke with Mike Isaac, a Silicon Valley correspondent at The New York Times, about these concerns. What OpenAI started with, though, is an opt-out version of intellectual property. So, for example, Disney would have to opt out individually from all of their intellectual property being used inside of Sora, which is an incredibly arduous task if you imagine how much property Disney owns. And, you know, frankly, just hard to do and something they never agreed to signing up. And Mike Isaac joins us again. So, Mike, good to see you. How has Sora 2 changed since you were last on The Daily Report? Yeah, so the Hollywood studios were not happy, as you might imagine, and almost immediately, OpenAI actually backed down. What they did was essentially move to an opt-in model, which is basically the opposite of what I was speaking about a month ago. These companies essentially have to allow their likenesses or their intellectual property to be used, or the likenesses of the actors who are, you know, being essentially asked to be AI-generated by users, which is a huge shift, you know. It's something that Hollywood studios have been fighting for in terms of, like, just protecting their IP. That said, there have been some sort of interesting ways around it, I would say. Maybe you say, you know, I want an AI-generated version of Mike Isaac dressed up as Superman, and the prompt may be rewritten, and I may be seen as a character in a blue outfit with a red cape without the big, characterized S on my chest. So they're being kind of worked around, essentially. I wanted to ask you about that, because one of our producers, Katie, has been using Sora 2 to make videos of her adorable dog, Romeo, as famous characters. So you can see here some of the videos that she's been making. I mean, it is just what you said, it's sort of skirting the issue. This looks very Harry Potter-esque, this looks Batman-esque to me. So, I mean, how much longer do you think that they'll be able to skirt some of these issues? Yeah, you know, it's really interesting, because, look, if you look at how a lot of popular culture exists right now, there are riffs on things, there's, you know, established case law around fair use or parody. If you take some intellectual property and decide to riff on it, or, you know, what's essentially, like, dramatically change it enough so that it becomes a new thing, at least in this law, you can argue that that's a fair use case. And I think the Hollywood studios don't want to necessarily get in a long, drawn-out legal battle there. There's probably behind-the-scenes discussions with open AI and all the big talent agencies. But in the meantime, you're going to get sort of a bootleg Batman in your producer's dog costume running around, and we'll see if that lasts, at least. Or Harry Potter, or whatever you want to dream up. I mean, Romeo looks great as a Thanksgiving Day float in the parade. Mike Exick, this is a slippery slope. I think it's an improvement. Yeah, this would be way too much of a time suck for me. Thank you so much.

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