"The kinds of videos that do well on YouTube Shorts are depressingly predictable: cute cats, heated arguments, crazy stunts, and plenty of good old-fashioned shots of people suffering low-key injuries. The issue is that the real world produces only so many epic fails. And of the small number that do happen, even fewer are caught on video. Think of all the airplane passenger arguments and dropped wedding cakes that have gone untaped and unposted!"
"Once you're into Sora, though, using Sora 2 (the actual video generation model behind it) is extremely easy. You just type in the concept for a video, and Sora 2 writes the script, generates about 11 seconds of very realistic vertical video, and even adds synchronized audio. The app struggles with beautiful, cinematic footage. In my early testing, Google's rival Veo 3.1-which the tech behemoth launched to compete with Sora 2-is much better at that."
YouTube Shorts successes are dominated by cute cats, heated arguments, crazy stunts, and low-key injury clips. The real world produces few epic fails and even fewer captured on camera. Sora is OpenAI's hyperrealistic video generator trained on billions of hours of short-form vertical video and excels at producing short, grabby, emotionally charged clips. Sora 2 auto-writes scripts, generates about 11-second vertical videos, and adds synchronized audio, while struggling with cinematic footage that competitors like Google's Veo 3.1 handle better. The invite-only Sora social network surpassed five million users quickly. An entirely fake YouTube channel built with Sora content in about 30 minutes reached 21,400 views within a week.
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