Sora is now available to Android users on the Google Play Store. The iOS version of OpenAI’s text-to-video generative AI app is still only available in select markets and requires an invitation, but people are still extremely excited about making slop of their own; the app reportedly reached more than 1 million downloads in less than five days. And it didn’t take long for the company to land in hot water over users creating disrespectful clips of Martin Luther King Jr. and drawing censure from the Japanese government over copycats of famous manga and anime.
Those aren’t the only legal issues Sora has been skirting. OpenAI was sued by Cameo on claims of copyright infringement, and the very next day, the company released a feature called “cameo” for putting existing entities into Sora’s gen-AI videos. Whatever it winds up being named, some form of licensing personas looks like it will be part of OpenAI’s eventual monetization plans for Sora.
