ChatGPT\u2019s Sora 2 against Google\u2019s Veo 3<\/a> AI video generator and came away impressed by how far OpenAI had pushed the boundaries of the technology with its realism and accurate physics. At the time, Sora 2 was only accessible via the web or a dedicated iOS app. Now, OpenAI has brought the Sora app to Android and it\u2019s more than just a basic AI video generator \u2014 it\u2019s a full social media platform similar to TikTok or YouTube Shorts that you can also personally star in.<\/p>\nAnd while platforms like Midjourney have allowed you to share your AI creations with others, the new Sora app takes things one step further \u2014 it allows you to add your own face and voice to the video. So how does Sora achieve this bizarre feat and what\u2019s it like to use? I installed it to find out.<\/p>\n
Sora is more than an AI video generator<\/p>\n
The Sora app feels familiar when you open it; the main feed scrolls vertically like any short-form video platform, and even includes the like, comment, and share buttons where you\u2019d expect to see them. This feed is dominated by AI-generated creations, of course, but it\u2019s not all artificial slop. As I mentioned earlier, Sora allows you to put yourself in an AI-generated video. Scroll through the feed and you\u2019ll come across the likeness of various personalities, ranging from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman himself to famous YouTubers.<\/p>\n
This is all made possible through Sora\u2019s headlining Cameo feature, which scans your facial features using just your phone\u2019s selfie camera. What I found most surprising was that the scanning process took less than ten seconds, faster than setting up face unlock on my Pixel. Once complete, I could immediately begin generating \u201ccameos\u201d or AI-generated videos with my face and voice. To achieve this, I clicked create and included my username and a description of the video.<\/p>\n
This worked surprisingly well \u2014 my body\u2019s proportions are slightly off in the AI-generated videos but the skin tone and other features line up near perfectly. It feels uncanny to see yourself in scenes that never happened, and my friends remarked they wouldn\u2019t have known the videos were AI generated if it wasn\u2019t for the watermark.<\/p>\n
Sora can place you in any environment, no matter how absurd, and will even replicate your voice with any text you include in your prompt. If you know other people on the platform, you can share your avatar with them. They can then use your likeness in videos of their own. Or you can open up your likeness to the world, as some influencers have done. Historical figures can also be included in your creations with few exceptions. Here are a couple of examples I generated where Bob Ross and Sam Altman explain app sideloading:<\/p>\n
But while many of Sora\u2019s features focus on marrying AI with real humans, the app\u2019s feed feels like the exact opposite. You\u2019ll find no shortage of cat videos, but there\u2019s little else worth your time. Still, I can\u2019t deny there\u2019s some appeal in being able to place yourself in unique and interesting settings without publicly sharing the videos.<\/p>\n
On iOS, the Sora app also allows you to upload videos of objects and animals and add them to your cameo. This means you could have your pet appear alongside you in an AI generated video. This feature hasn\u2019t made its way to the Android app yet, though.<\/p>\n
Would you use an AI video generator if you could add your likeness?<\/p>\n
244 votes<\/p>\n
Yes, I would<\/p>\n
32%<\/p>\n
No, I don’t want to share my likeness<\/p>\n
39%<\/p>\n
No, I don’t need AI-generated videos<\/p>\n
30%<\/p>\n
Is Sora worth downloading?<\/p>\n
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Ryan Haines \/ Android Authority<\/p>\n
Sora 2 was invite-only at launch, but it\u2019s now open to anyone living in the US, Canada, South Korea, and Japan. If you live outside of these countries, you\u2019ll still need an invite code from an existing user or wait until the platform finishes rolling out.<\/p>\n
Once you gain access to the Sora app, though, OpenAI will let you generate 30 videos per day. The platform is also completely free, and doesn\u2019t include any advertisements. By contrast, Google requires you to be a paying AI Pro subscriber to use Veo 3 and you can only generate a handful of eight-second videos per day. OpenAI is clearly absorbing Sora\u2019s monumental compute cost for now.<\/p>\n
As for whether you should use the Sora app, I\u2019m conflicted. On one hand, it\u2019s a shocking perspective on how far generative AI has come that it can mimic content you\u2019d expect to see a human create on Instagram or YouTube. In the early days, Sora\u2019s guardrails were practically non-existent. You could generate copyrighted characters, real public figures, even historical icons. I saw a clip where Martin Luther King Jr. yelled profanities into crowds and a recreation of Titanic with Pokemon instead of human actors.<\/p>\n
Sora has incredible breadth, but nearly zero depth.<\/p>\n
Needless to say, OpenAI was forced to clamp down after widespread complaints from copyright holders. So what\u2019s left on the Sora app now? Admittedly, not a whole lot.<\/p>\n
Sora might be useful as a form of surreal escapism for those that want to tune out the world around them, but the AI model\u2019s hyper-realism doesn\u2019t exactly lean towards this aspect. Even if you use Sora as OpenAI intends: a way to place yourself in a variety of settings that you can\u2019t recreate in the real wold, I\u2019m left wondering who the audience is.<\/p>\n
After an hour of scrolling through Sora\u2019s seemingly endless feed of AI-generated clips, I felt nothing. There\u2019s no narrative thread, no humanity, no context to any of the videos on Sora. Unlike Instagram or YouTube Shorts, where I might stumble upon some educational content or a slice of someone\u2019s life, Sora is completely synthetic. It\u2019s entertainment for entertainment\u2019s sake that\u2019s utterly detached from the real world.<\/p>\n
Ultimately then, I suspect most people will use the Sora app as an AI video generator and ignore the social aspects altogether. And if you\u2019re willing to hand over a scan of your face to OpenAI, I\u2019d recommend trying it out at least. The tech aspect of it is extremely impressive, and there\u2019s nothing else like it.<\/p>\n
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