OpenAI Sora Hands-On: Disappointing and Impressive in Equal Measure [Video]

After months of anticipation, OpenAI finally launched Sora, its AI video generator tool. We have been waiting to access Sora and generate AI videos to see if it lives up to the hype. We have now tested Sora on a variety of prompts and used its image-to-video feature as well. Now, go through our hands-on experience of Sora to learn about its capabilities and limitations.

To test Sora, I started with a simple prompt to see how it handles air movement and general physics. I ran the below prompt on Sora, but it refused to generate a video. Turns out, due to the “blow” word in the prompt, Sora refused to generate the video. So I changed it to “extinguishes” and it readily produced the video. It shows that Sora has been heavily restricted to avoid harmful video generation.

Never mind, coming to the generated video, it failed to follow my instructions. The person in the video didn’t blow …