I called AI video a dumb toy until I saw the new Sora clips

For a long time, I thought AI video was just for making weird, glitchy memes. Then I saw the sample videos from OpenAI's Sora project, like that one of the golden retriever puppies playing in the snow. The way the light hit the fur and the snow moved looked so real it totally flipped my view. Has anyone else had their mind changed by a specific AI demo?

3 comments

3 Comments

karent752mo ago

Oh my gosh, YES. I felt the exact same way. I wrote it all off as a silly gimmick until I saw that video of the woman walking down a Tokyo street at night. The reflections in the puddles and the neon signs just looked so perfect. It completely stopped me in my tracks and made me rethink everything. That demo was a total game changer for me.

murphy.ruby2mo ago

Exactly! That Tokyo demo was the turning point for me too, @karent75. It wasn't just the big reflections, but the tiny details. Like the way the light from a sign bled onto her coat sleeve, or how you could see a faint, wobbly version of a building in a shallow puddle. It felt alive, not just shiny. That's what sold me, seeing the tech capture the messy, beautiful feel of a real place.

knight.xena1mo agoMost Upvoted

Read somewhere that the lead artist spent WEEKS just getting the rain to look right on different surfaces. Not just splashing but the WAY it slides and collects and drags dirt with it. That level of obsession is what actually makes the difference between a tech demo and something that feels LIKE a memory. Makes me think all those early ray tracing demos we saw were just pretty tech, this was the first time someone used it to tell a story about a place.