OpenAI's new short-form video app, Sora, seems to have all the ingredients of a viral hit. Just hours after the app's launch on Tuesday, memes created using its AI video-generation technology were already spreading to other social networks-including, for example, a video of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman rapping from the inside of a toilet bowl. Sora's launch-complete with a TikTok style "for you" page-was something of an about-face for Altman,
In a video on OpenAI's new TikTok-like social media app Sora, a never-ending factory farm of pink pigs are grunting and snorting in their pens - each is equipped with a feeding trough and a smartphone screen, which plays a feed of vertical videos. A terrifyingly realistic Sam Altman stares directly at the camera, as though he's making direct eye contact with the viewer. The AI-generated Altman asks, "Are my piggies enjoying their slop?"