OpenAI Must Withdraw Sora: How Deepfake AI Videos Endanger Us All

OpenAI shows a “reckless disregard” for product safety, people’s rights to their own likeness, and even the stability of democracy, according to a letter written by watchdog Public Citizen. The Sora video platform is typically used for short-form social media content, creating clips entertaining enough to be liked and shared. A popular theme is fake doorbell camera footage, where something slightly unusual takes place while remaining somewhat believable – like a kangaroo coming to someone’s door, or a loosely entertaining street scene unfolding – but the software could quickly become a danger to us all.
Public Citizen just urged OpenAI to pull Sora from public use, calling it a reckless release that supercharges deepfakes, identity theft, and election misinformation. Is it as bad as they say?
The Danger of Deepfakes
Public Citizen wrote a letter to OpenAI and to US Congress demanding Sora to be taken offline until robust, testable guardrails can be implemented. Their claim is that …