OpenAI adds reusable “characters” and video stitching to Sora

OpenAI’s Sora app will now let you turn almost anything into a reusable avatar for AI-generated videos. These “Character veilis one of many new features added to the Sora 2 video creator, along with the integration of clips and leaderboards showcasing the app’s most popular videos and songs.

The cameos were personal teased last weekIt builds on an existing feature that allows Sora users to create AI fakes of themselves that anyone else on the platform can use, if allowed. These same capabilities can now be used in other subjects, such as pets, illustrations, and games, and the feature launches with a selection of pre-made characters that users can add to videos.

“Once created, each character comes with their own permissions, separate from your personal appearance: keep it just for yourself, share it with shared followers, or open it to everyone on Sora,” OpenAI says in Latest Sora release notes. “Give your character a display name and handle, then tag them when you want them to appear in a video.”

OpenAI says character sprites can be created using an “authentic persona” created by users in Sora, but it’s unclear whether the feature will accept fictional people created using other AI tools, or how realistic the images will be allowed. If you can just upload any AI-generated person, OpenAI didn’t explain how Sora would differentiate those images from images of real people. The update will be released within days of the launch of celebrity video platform Cameo OpenAI slapped with trademark infringement claim Due to his use of “cameo” in Sora app features.

Sora also offers video merging capabilities that can link multiple videos together to create longer, multi-scene clips, and leaderboards that show the most remixed videos and the most featured users and personalities. OpenAI has temporarily created Sora is more intuitive To get people using these features, it announced yesterday that people in the US, Canada, Japan, and Korea can sign up without an invite code for a “limited time.”