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OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concerns
03/25/26 10:53 AM




OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concerns
March 24, 2026 at 2:37 pm Updated March 25, 2026 at 7:41 am

By The Associated Press
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere.

OpenAI said in a brief social media message Tuesday that it was “saying goodbye to the Sora app” and that it would share more soon about how to preserve what users already created on the app.

“What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing,” it said.

The company behind ChatGPT released Sora in September as an attempt to capture the attention, and potentially advertising dollars, that follow short-form videos on TikTok, YouTube or Meta-owned Instagram and Facebook.

But a growing chorus of advocacy groups, academics and experts expressed concern about the dangers of letting people create AI videos on just about anything they can type into a prompt, leading to the proliferation of nonconsensual images and realistic deepfakes in a sea of less harmful “AI slop.”…

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/openai-pulls-the-plug-on-sora-the-viral-ai-video-app-that-sparked-deepfake-concerns/

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