The launch of OpenAI’s Sora 2 text-to-video generation kicked off another round of anxiety among intellectual property holders in the U.S. Major Hollywood studios objected to OpenAI’s copyright policies, leading to changes in how the model handles prompts for certain sensitive categories of AI-generated content.

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OpenAI has launched Sora 2, an advanced text-to-video AI model, raising concerns within the film and television industry about the potential for copyright infringement. Initially, OpenAI required intellectual property holders to opt out if they did not want their content used, prompting strong responses from major studios and the Motion Picture Association of America.

Following industry pushback, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced policy changes to give media companies more control over their intellectual property and suggested the possibility of revenue sharing. Despite these changes, studios remain cautious, questioning whether Sora 2 can effectively prevent both direct and indirect uses of copyrighted characters. Demonstrations show Sora 2 rejecting explicit requests for well-known characters, but some outputs still resemble existing IP, highlighting ongoing challenges.

Why OpenAI’s Sora 2 AI-video app has Hollywood worried

This just in, the Sora 2 AI model is now set to shake up the film and television industry. Sora cannot create content that uses copyrighted materials, or can it? There is a battle brewing in Hollywood over AI, and it really heated up last week when OpenAI introduced its latest version of Sora. We're launching Sora 2 inside the Sora app, allowing everyone to push the limits of their imagination. It's text-to-video generation. We ask them to create a superhero who wears a red suit and capes and flies through the air. It looks like The Flash or Superman here to me. Sora first introduced this new version and said that if IP holders, media companies, did not want their characters or intellectual property used, they had to actively opt out. The movie studios, along with the Motion Picture Association of America, sent strongly worded letters to OpenAI. Since then, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, changed the policy, said they're going to work with the media companies to allow them more granular control over how their IP is used. And he also indicated that there might be an opportunity for revenue sharing with these companies. My sources are telling me that the studios are trying to figure out if OpenAI is really going to comply and not just remove blatant examples of IP infringement, but also backdoor examples of times when you could get a character that looks or feels an awful lot like a copyrighted character by asking Sora sort of sneaky prompts. When TikTok ramped between 2019, 2020, 2021, they took a lot of eyeballs, they took a lot of time spent on that new platform. So now this is a new TikTok coming through. So the next 12 to 18 months is something that the subscale platforms will feel the pressure of. In my opinion, the most important thing that these large, big platforms can do is provide incentives to advertisers and to creators that will make the platforms even more stickier. So let me show you exactly how this works. Now here, when you ask for something that looks like SpongeBob SquarePants, it will not give you that. A bunch of my queries with Sora have failed. I asked for a female superhero, blue suit, red cape with blonde hair, who looks like a Marvel character. That failed because I mentioned Marvel, I would have to guess. So now I'm going to ask for a video of a fat orange cartoon cat eating a lasagna. Do they think this is too similar to Garfield? Let's see. So interestingly here, they would not show me a video of a fat orange cartoon cat eating lasagna. They also wouldn't fulfill my query for a cartoon of a white dog with a black nose and black ears and a friend who's a yellow bird and a red dog house because that's Snoopy. Here's the closest thing we got to what seems like it could be copyright infringement. So we asked for a superhero that wears a black cape and is saving a woman from a burning building. Here's what they gave us, a guy who looks a little bit like Batman, but he sounds a lot like Batman. I thought no one would come. Not on my watch. Hold on tight. Thank you. You're safe now. The woman he's carrying does have three legs, though.

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