🔦 Signal of the Week: Robots Can Make Videos Now…But Is It Too Much?

OpenAI just made Sora 2, a new tool that can make super realistic videos from just words.

Type something like “a dog teaching a penguin to surf,” and boom! Sora makes it happen.

At the same time, Meta (the company behind Facebook and Instagram) made a similar tool called Vibes.

Some people love it. Others call it “AI slop”, meaning there’s too much fake, random, low-quality stuff online.

OpenAI says every Sora video will have a tiny digital mark to show it’s made by AI. Meta says their videos will be labeled too.

👓 Founder’s Lens: What I’m Seeing

AI video is fun, but messy. It’s easy to make cool stuff but also easy to make nonsense.
Rules come later. People make tools first and figure out what’s safe later.
Copying is confusing. Some AI videos use real people or music without asking first.
Truth gets blurry. When fake videos look real, it’s hard to know what’s true.

Sora 2 is like a magic movie maker. You type an idea and it creates a video in seconds.

Cool features:

You can add people’s faces or voices (with permission).
Each video has a hidden tag that says “Made by AI.”
You can scroll through a “Sora feed”, (kind of like TikTok), but all videos are AI-made.

📌 Why it matters: AI videos are fun to watch but they can also trick people. That’s why we need clear labels and smart rules.

Meta’s Vibes is also making short AI videos for Instagram.
Some artists are mad because they say AI videos feel fake or lazy.
OpenAI says critics just “don’t get it” and that this tech will help everyone create.
People are already making videos of famous people who passed away, which is making families upset.

AI video tools are growing super fast, maybe faster than we can handle.

They make it easy for anyone to create, but they also make it hard to tell what’s real.

The lesson?

Enjoy the tech. But think before you share.

— Jayde Silva

Founder @ Sixth Summit