How to access Sora

 How to access Sora?

Sora is an AI model that can create realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions. Sora can generate videos up to a minute long while maintaining visual quality and adherence to the user’s prompt.

Sora is becoming available to red teamers to assess critical areas for harms or risks. We are also granting access to a number of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gain feedback on how to advance the model to be most helpful for creative professionals.

We’re sharing our research progress early to start working with and getting feedback from people outside of OpenAI and to give the public a sense of what AI capabilities are on the horizon.

• Target Audience: The initial focus seems to be on visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to gather feedback on its effectiveness for creative professionals.

Here are some resources to stay updated on Sora's development:

• OpenAI Sora Page: https://openai.com/sora

Alternatives to Consider:

• While you can't directly access Sora, there are other text-to-image generation models available, such as:
  • Dall-E 2 (limited access)
  • Midjourney (requires membership)
  • NightCafe Creator (freemium model)
  • Deep Dream Generator (freemium model)
• These models might not generate videos yet, but they can create impressive images based on your text descriptions.

How OpenAI’s text-to-video tool Sora could change science – and society

Sora isn’t the first example of text-to-video technology; others include Gen-2, produced by Runway in New York City and released last year, and the Google-led Lumiere, announced in January. Harwood says she has been “underwhelmed” by some of these other offerings. “They are becoming more and more vanilla in what they present to you,” she says, adding that the programs require very specific prompts to get them to produce compelling content.

Text-to-video AI will throw up broad issues for society to face. “We’re going to have to learn to evaluate the content we see in ways we haven’t in the past,” says Harwood. “These tools put the opportunity to be a media content creator in the hands of everybody,” she says. “We’re going to be dealing with the consequences of that. It’s a fundamental shift in the way material will be consumed.”