When OpenAI released Sora, it was kind of a disappointment. When they first demoed Sora, it was amazing, but by the time they made it available to the public, many better AI video generators existed, and it was kind of useless in comparison.
Sora 2, though, is something else.
Now, Google has Veo 3, which integrates video and sound, and I have been using it to make longer, coherent videos (some examples I did for The Babylon Bee here). It was the best AI video generator. But Sora 2 also does video and sound, and so often just absolutely nails the prompt — action and comic acting.
The only problem is that it’s heavily watermarked and doesn’t have the tools yet to make matching shots like in Veo 3. But it does 10 seconds at a time, so now I am trying to master the 10-second sketch.
Here’s what I have so far (I’m posting under the user name “slowronin” if you can get a Sora invite). And since you can put yourself in these with something called a “cameo,” I just went ahead and had these all star me, since that’s easier than worrying about it making someone who might run into copyright.
Here’s a sampling of the ones I’ve made so far. Almost anything you imagine you can do… as long as you can get it down to 10 seconds.
Everyone is scared of our AI future, but at least it’s fun for now. I really feel like when this has more professional tools for making longer videos, things are really going to take off with AI production.