Artificial intelligence

How Sora and co. are changing the film industry

What OpenAI's AI chatbot ChatGPT is to text, Sora is to film and video.(Bild: Bartek (KI-generiert) – stock.adobe.com)

Today, no Hollywood blockbuster can get by without them: Computer-generated images have significantly changed the film landscape in recent decades and enabled directors to realize their creative ideas. With advances in the field of artificial intelligence, the industry is facing another radical change. Filmmakers are alarmed.

It is not yet available to the public, but is already causing quite a stir: in mid-February, ChatGPT developer OpenAI unveiled Sora, a new tool that enables users to create videos from text specifications. You can already see what this looks like on the manufacturer's official website. Whether mammoths in a snowstorm, dancing kangaroos or pirate ships in a stormy coffee cup (see video below): There seems to be only one limit to the imagination so far, namely the time restriction of the videos to a maximum of one minute.