Why is it so horrendous now??? All videos I've seen before seemed so groundbreaking for Ai, and now it feels like it just regressed a few years back. The videos it generates now are absolutely horrible, it baffles me. I've seen better generations with random image to video generators nobodies heard of, how are people generating such good videos still???? Is it just backlog from when it was good?

I already knew this would happen, as I predicted here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1nvoq9u/enjoy_sora_2_while_it_lasts_we_all_know_openais/

However, I’m still stunned by how little time it took. I thought they would let us use the good version for at least 4-8 weeks before subtly reducing its quality over time (like they did with their image generator), but it has already dipped to VEO 3 level or lower, and it hasn’t even been two weeks!

I’m using the SORA 2 Pro model, which is supposed to be the good one, yet it has already reached a point where all the original selling points (e.g. strong understanding of the world, realistic physics, and logical sequencing of events) are gone. Most generations are now, at best, no better than VEO 3, and sometimes even worse. This is effectively not the same product we had at launch.

What shocks me is not that they reduced its quality, but how quickly and blatantly they did it. OpenAI clearly doesn’t care anymore. They don’t mind that it’s obvious the model performs poorly now. They built early hype, presumably to satisfy investors, and now that they’ve achieved that, they’re throwing it all under the bus. Again.

Sora 2 is boring now, I get it they have to follow the copyright laws, and I understand that, but let's be honest all their models has been trained on everything you can think of, and they did not ask for permission so why restrict your customers to videos that is clearly FAIR USE. Makes no sense and this will not turn people away from TikTok with all these restrictions.

Sora 2 is impressive — no doubt. The level of realism in AI-generated video is getting scary good, to the point where it can be hard to tell what’s real and what’s synthetic. But it makes me wonder… what’s the actual goal here? With ChatGPT, the value is clear: efficiency, creativity, productivity. It helps us think faster, write better, and build more. But what about Sora 2 — what’s the endgame?

– Is it meant to replace Hollywood, actors, and content creators? – Or is it a tool to let individuals create their own films and stories? – Do we even want this level of realism in generated video?

There’s also the darker side — misinformation, fake footage, and defamatory content that could look 100% real. Once that line between real and artificial disappears, how do we trust what we see?

This text was created with ChatGPT — and as a pro-AI user, I’m genuinely curious where we draw the line between innovation and overreach.

So, what do you think? What’s the point of Sora 2 — and is this something we actually want?

It's very realistic, I can hardly tell its AI unless I'm told (or if its clearly fake af).

As an actress I worried ill never get roles due to this

I also hate the idea of ALL media being AI, or enjoying a video and not knowing it's AI until much later, everything online will be a lie, history will be rewritten, there will be no more creative media online, it'll all be ai, I'll watch a movie, love it, then find its ai. I'm scared

Also the deepfake aspect of it all, like possibly going to jail for an AI video/CCTV footage of something you didn't do (or the total oppsoite: people getting off Scott free because AI makes it difficult to tell if they actually did it)

And I HATE the people praising it, this is not good! Artists, animators, actors, youtubers. Anyone creative is going to be squashed, but I've seen only praise for sora 2.

I don't know if it's been fully talked about on here (it has now)

Edit 2: holy shit a girl cannot have dreams: I WAS worried I wouldn't get roles (I've had a few background ones, nothing major yet), also I highlighted MULTIPLE issues, can we stop getting caught up on the very first line of this post?

I'm from a country where the new Sora 2 video app/model isn't supported yet, so I'm still using the old Sora website for my daily 12 free image generations.
(And I use Sora to generate images only, so I am not that keen on using a VPN just to try out the Sora 2 video model.)

Today, I ran some of my usual prompts, and the results are completely different from what I was receiving till yesterday. The quality is totally different. They look much more "detailed" and generally enhanced compared to what I was getting yesterday for the same prompts.

I ran those same prompts in my free ChatGPT account (which I assume is probably using GPT 5.1), and those results are of the same "old" quality.

It seems like the model powering the image generation on sora.chatgpt.com specifically has been updated, or maybe downgraded(?, because these aesthetics kinda feel like what I used to get from DALL-E 3).
And this "new" version follows the "aesthetic details" more compared to what is asked in the actual prompt.

Has anyone else noticed this? Was there an announcement about an image model update regarding Sora? Or maybe this is a downgrade to DALL-E 3 for free users?

Edit: I have tested DALL-E 3 on LMArena, and nope. These results are not from DALL-E 3. This is definitely a new model that Sora secretly released... Or maybe something else is cooking?

I've attached some images generated from the exact same prompt, first image from today and second from before today, the difference is huge.
Trying to figure out if this is just me or if we got a quiet model upgrade/downgrade.

There’s a lot of that going on on X especially. Some are racist videos that are claimed to be made by Sora 2 but they don’t have the logo.

The uncanny valley is slowly collapsing in front of us.

bruh ts is so frigging unfair! i saw all these people making these really cool and funny clips and now i finally am able to use Sora 2 but everything i do is restricted! I HATE THIS

how can u ruin such a amazing app?!

I'm seeing massive hype for SORA 2 currently.

You guys do realize this happens literally EVERY time whenever OpenAI releases a flashy new toy? And that a few weeks/months afterward they dumb it down to a point of it being a shadow of the release version? You do realize that they've done this literally every single time? EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.

Have fun with it while it lasts. Once the wow factor is over, they will censor the hell out of it, remove the ability to use copyrighted characters, dumb it down in general to save compute costs, and then it will be just another boring AI video model.

EDIT: LOL! Already people are complaining this has happened and it didn't even take a week. I was expecting it to last at least 2-6 weeks lmao.

As far as I understand OpenAI wants to make a tiktok alternative for a wide audience.

TikTok reportedly sees 1+ billion videos uploaded per day. If each 10-second Al video costs roughly 0.1$-1$ in compute + infra, that will cost hundreds of millions a day just to support uploads. How are they gonna finance it?

Without a system to distinguish between pregen and postgen blocks, and/or a system to separate out content violations that are out of a user’s control (like sora adding copyrighted characters to videos on its own), this is a complete creativity killer.

Seems like they need to decide whether they want this tp be a pro enterprise tool for corporate video generation, or a public-facing social network. Maybe they just did.

Moved to https://reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1o8kmg9/sora_2_megathread_part_3/ because this thread hit the comment limit

So we can all agree that everyone is quitting Sora 2 now that we can't make everything due to copyright issues?

https://openai.com/index/sora-2/

The Sora 2 app now has an average rating of 2.9.
What’s the reason?