{"id":8372,"date":"2025-11-02T17:21:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8372"},"modified":"2025-11-02T17:21:45","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T09:21:45","slug":"real-or-fake-how-openais-sora-app-erodes-confidence-in-everything-we-see-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=8372","title":{"rendered":"Real or fake? How OpenAI\u2019s Sora app \u2018erodes confidence\u2019 in everything we see online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2025\/10\/31\/3c0ff20a-7bbe-41c1-b6ae-c3311935314a_e52e39fd.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Scrolling through Sora can feel a bit like entering a real-life multiverse.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Michael Jackson performs stand-up; the alien from the <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Predator<\/em> movies flips burgers at McDonald\u2019s; a home security camera captures a moose crashing through a glass door; and Queen Elizabeth dives from the top of a table at a pub.<\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Such improbable realities, fantastical futures and absurdist videos are the mainstay of Sora, a new short video app released by <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">ChatGPT maker OpenAI<\/span>.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">The continuous stream of hyperreal, short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence is mind-bending and mesmerising at first. But it quickly triggers a new need to <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">second-guess every piece of content<\/span> as real or fake.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">\u201cThe biggest risk with Sora is that it makes plausible deniability impossible to overcome, and that it erodes confidence in our ability to discern authentic from synthetic,\u201d said Sam Gregory, an expert on <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">deepfakes<\/span> and executive director at Witness, a human rights organisation.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cIndividual fakes matter, but the real damage is a fog of doubt settling over everything we see.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3331082\/real-or-fake-how-openais-sora-app-erodes-confidence-everything-we-see-online?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scrolling through Sora can feel a bit like entering a real-life multiverse. Michael Jackson performs stand-up; the alien from the Predator movies flips burgers at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[524,7836,7835,2538,500,7833,2492,7834],"class_list":["post-8372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-app","tag-confidence","tag-erodes","tag-fake","tag-online","tag-openais","tag-real","tag-sora","wpcat-33-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}