{"id":34256,"date":"2025-10-05T17:51:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openai-backer-vinod-khosla-slams-tunnel-vision-creatives-attacking-sora-as-ai-slop\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T17:51:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T17:51:15","slug":"openai-backer-vinod-khosla-slams-tunnel-vision-creatives-attacking-sora-as-ai-slop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/openai-backer-vinod-khosla-slams-tunnel-vision-creatives-attacking-sora-as-ai-slop\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla slams &#8216;tunnel vision creatives&#8217; attacking Sora as &#8216;AI slop&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/667a69c450b021b5cae906ae?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Vinod Khosla.\"\/><figcaption>Vinod Khosla.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Ferdman\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Legendary investor Vinod Khosla has weighed in on OpenAI&#039;s new Sora video-generation app.<\/li>\n<li>Since its release this week, some critics have branded the videos coming from Sora as &quot;AI slop.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Khosla, one of the original backers of OpenAI, called those critics &quot;tunnel vision creatives.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>OpenAI&#039;s new video tool, Sora 2, is either a cultural touchstone or just more AI slop, depending on who you ask.<\/p>\n<p>Billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, an early investor in OpenAI, made his thoughts crystal clear in an X post on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Let the viewers of this &#039;slop&#039; judge it, not ivory tower luddite snooty critics or defensive creatives,&quot; he wrote. He also called the critics &quot;tunnel vision creatives.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Sora 2 app, released earlier this week, allows users to create short-form AI videos using text prompts and images. Users can also scan their face and voice and insert themselves into videos.<\/p>\n<p>Since its launch, the tool has simultaneously proven popular, shooting to the top of Apple&#039;s App Store, and been derided as &quot;brain rot&quot; or &quot;AI slop.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Khosla says the negative reactions are shortsighted.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is same initial reaction to digital music in the 90&#039;s and digital photography in the 2000&#039;s,&quot; he wrote, adding: &quot;Opens up so many more avenues of creativity if you have an imagination.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>While many users are having fun making AI videos of their friends and family, Sora is also a copyright minefield and one of the best deepfake tools now on the market.<\/p>\n<p>As Business Insider&#039;s Katie Notopoulos wrote earlier this week: &quot;The flip side of all this wonder is also the terrifying part.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This is the first time I&#039;ve felt AI get close to mimicking real life. In other words, you might have a hard time telling what&#039;s real and what&#039;s fake when you watch these Sora-made videos,&quot; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Sora has also raised eyebrows in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this week that Sam Altman&#039;s firm had advised studios and talent agencies that rightsholders would need to opt out to ensure their copyrighted material does not appear in videos produced by Sora.<\/p>\n<p>Altman, however, appeared to walk back this policy in a blog post on Friday, promising rightsholders more control over the use of their material.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We will give rightsholders more granular control over generation of characters, similar to the opt-in model for likeness but with additional controls,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinod Khosla. Steven Ferdman\/Getty Images Legendary investor Vinod Khosla has weighed in on OpenAI&#039;s new Sora video-generation app. Since its release this week, some critics have branded the videos coming from Sora as &quot;AI slop.&quot; Khosla, one of the original backers of OpenAI, called those critics &quot;tunnel vision creatives.&quot; OpenAI&#039;s new video tool, Sora 2, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}