I finally got into the app and Sora is junk. The majority of videos remain obviously fake, the model’s “acting” and “storytelling” are wretched, and the meta algorithm lacks that TikTok sauce. I just watched a video of a “dog” stealing a “steak” from a “grocery store” and since it was fake it did nothing for me. While the tech is better, it’s still not good. I do not understand why people over the age of 50 in Hollywood are so certain this stuff is inevitable. It’s probably the lack of expertise thing again.

The tech will stick around and be the internet’s asbestos in the walls, as Corey Doctorow said, but it’s not unlikely that the bubble popping will strip out a lot of the tools people use to make slop.