There's a disturbing
new trend popping up on social media, and it has been made possible by OpenAI's new video-generating tool, Sora.
Across TikTok and X, people are coming across
videos of women and girls being violently strangled. These videos are faked, but look
incredibly realistic. They're also often watermarked with Sora 2, a video-generating AI.
This makes OpenAI, the company behind the Sora program,
directly responsible for this violence.Sign now to tell OpenAI: implement strict regulations to stop this from happening NOW!
The fact that the videos aren't real doesn't make the fake footage any less harmful or dangerous.
Real brutality against women and girls is bolstered by these fake videos, reinforcing a culture of violence. Some of these videos -- depicting
brutal strangulation and suffering -- are being viewed thousands of times before they are flagged by sites and taken down by content moderators.
The psychological damage on viewers is unthinkable. No one should be making, let alone sharing and viewing, videos depicting this kind of hyper-realistic violence against women and children. So why is a company valued at over a billion dollars not stepping up and making a plan to actually address this crisis? Sora 2 claims to have strict rules forbidding "graphic or violent content."
Then how in the world is this stuff getting made, published, and viewed over and over again?It's time for OpenAI to take responsibility for the software they are unleashing in the world and tighten their internal regulations around the creation of videos like this one.
Sign the petition if you agree!