Consumer Advocacy group urges Opelai to pull video app SORA over privacy, data privacy concerns
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The non-profit consumer watchdog Openai has withdrawn its next-generation video software after the app sparked fears of data breaches and privacy breaches.
The letter, addressed to the Company and CEO Sam Altman, accuses Outrai of removing the application immediately so that it can present it ahead of competitors.
That showed “a consistent and dangerous pattern of OpenAI rushing to market with a product that is secure or lacks oversight,” the watchdog group said.
Sora 2, the letter says, shows a “reckless disregard” for product safety and the rights of people alike. It also affects the wider public’s trust in the authenticity of online content, it argued.
The group also sent a letter to the US Congress.
Opena did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
More responsive to complaints about celebrity content
A typical sora video is designed to be funny enough to click and share on platforms like Tiktok, Instagram, X and Facebook.
It could be Queen Elizabeth II traveling or something ordinary and paid. One popular type of sora shows fake footage at the door that captures something a little mysterious – Say, a boa constrow on the parch or an alligator approaching an image that has not been captured – and ends with a shocking image, as the grandmother screams as she hits the animal with a broom.
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Whether it’s your best friend riding a Unicorn, or Martin Luther King Junior dreaming of selling vacation packages – now it’s easy and fast to turn those ideas into meaningful videos, using the new AI application, eSoura. “
Public citizens are joining a growing chorus of Advocacy groups, academics and experts raising the alarm about the dangers of allowing people with non-consensual images and logical depth in the dangerous sea of ”AI Slop.”
Openai descends on the AI creation of social figures that make out things – among them, Michael Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr. and Mist Roger – but only after the outcry of family grounds and the actors’ union.
“Our biggest concern is the threat to democracy,” Public Citizen Tech Policy advocate JB Branch said in an interview.
“I think we’re entering a world where people don’t really trust what they see. And we’re starting to see strategies in politics where the first picture, the first video that’s released, that’s what people remember.”
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The branch, which wrote Tuesday’s letter, also sees broader threats to people’s lives and says those could affect certain groups.
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Opelai bans nudity but the branch said “women see themselves being harassed online” in other ways.
The fetishised niche content made it through the limitations of the app. 404 media outlet news on Friday reported on the Flood of videos of Sora-made women being designed.
OpenAI launched its new SORA app for iPhones over a month ago. It was launched on Android phones last week in the US, Canada and several Asian countries, including Japan and South Korea.
Much of the strong pushback against it is coming from Hollywood and other entertainment interests, including the Japanese manga industry.
Openai announced its first major changes just days after the release, saying “overflow is very frustrating” for users but it’s important to change “while the world is still changing with this new technology.”
That was followed by publicly announced agreements with Martin Luther King Jr., 16, to prevent “disrespect” better actor Bryan Cranston, and another Oct.
“It’s all well and good when you’re famous,” Branch said. “It’s just the kind of pattern that Vulai has where they’re willing to respond to the sleep of very young people. But they’re willing to do something behind the scenes.”
The European Ai Ai Production Company6 says Ari-Creation Trilly Norwood generated a lot of interest, but Hollywood actors including Emily Blunt, Melisbery Andro Goldberg and the SAG-AFTRA Union won the character of AI.
Lawsuits against chatgt are ongoing
Opena has faced similar complaints with its flagship product, chatgpt. Seven new lawsuits filed last week in California courts allege that the Chatbot drove people to commit suicide and self-harm even in the absence of prior mental health issues.
Filed on behalf of six adults and one child by the Social Media Admins Center and the Tech Justice Law Project, OpenLice Law, though it was premature for internal warnings. Four victims died by suicide.
The citizens of the community are not involved in the cases, but the branch said it sees similarities with how Sora was released.
“A lot of this is predictable,” she said. “But they’d rather get the product out there, get people to download it, get people addicted to it than to do the right thing and push through pre-testing these things and worry about the plight of everyday users.”
Opelai responds to anime creators, video makers
Opelai used last week in response to complaints about sora from the Japanese trade association representing ghibli animation and video menzis bandai namco, squap Enix and others.
Opena explained the extensive capabilities of the application to create fake videos based on popular characters, which many anime fans want to connect with their favorite characters.
But the company has also put security guards in place to prevent popular characters from being reproduced without copyright holders’ permission.
“We are directly involved with studios and rights holders, listening to feedback and learning how to use sora 2, where the cultural and construction industries are very important,” said Opelai in a statement about the trade group’s letter last week.
