OpenAI’s Controversial Interview About Sora [Video]

OpenAI’s CTO Mira Murati just did a controversial interview with the Wall Street Journal about the company’s new AI video model, Sora.

The interview started strong, with plenty of discussion about Sora’s remarkable (but flawed) capabilities at generating video from text. 

But things took a problematic turn when the reporter pressed Murati on where the training data for Sora came from. Murati stumbled, claiming she wasn’t sure if YouTube, Instagram or Facebook videos were used. She vaguely cited “publicly available data” before shutting down further questions.

The segment lit up the AI world. If it’s legal for AI companies to use copyrighted material for training, why the secrecy around data sources? The optics aren’t great.

So was this just a PR blunder or a concerning peek behind the curtain of AI development?

I got the scoop from Marketing AI Institute founder/CEO Paul Roetzer on Episode 88 of The Artificial Intelligence Show.

This PR blunder is really a legal …