In a short video widely shared online, Pokemon frolic through a lush green field while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman watches from the sidelines. He then turns to the camera and says, “I hope Nintendo doesn’t sue us.”
The fantastical scene is one of a multitude of artificial-intelligence-generated videos created by OpenAI’s short-form video app Sora 2, and the video speaks to the legally fraught territory that the company is entering.
Named for the Japanese word for “sky” due to the product’s “limitless potential,” according to company lore, the platform was released to a handful of users last week and was quickly flooded with videos featuring iconic Japanese intellectual property (IP), including Pokemon, "One Piece" and "Dragon Ball Z." Such videos, which are only possible to generate because of OpenAI “training” Sora 2 on the work of human creators, have been widely branded “AI slop” by critics.
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