OpenAI Sora: Beneficial or Hazardous?

Bushra Shahzad
Tech and Me, Loving It or Hating It
2 min readApr 2, 2024
A 3D image depicting a laptop screen displaying an AI Sora robot engaging with the audience. The robot appears technologically advanced, with a sleek design and expressive features. This scene represents modern communication technology and human-machine interaction.
Image by Bing

Now all your dreams will become a reality.

OpenAI Sora is the new game in town, following the launch of the text bot ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence (AI) image generator DALL.E.

You just have to login, type in your prompt, and boom! All your fantasies, your imaginary characters, and your childhood paracosm would become a reality. Isn’t it cool and amazing? But what if the same technology is used to falsely accuse someone? What if it is used for spreading false news and for the purpose of character assassination? These are the potential hazards that the generative AI video platform OpenAI Sora can bring to the table.

But we can’t overlook the second chapter; let’s turn over the page and see how beautifully it will fulfil our forgotten blurry yearnings, our unconscious desires, and our childhood imaginations.

An animated scene featuring a close-up of a short, fluffy monster kneeling beside a melting red candle. The monster has wide eyes and an open mouth, expressing wonder and curiosity as it gazes at the flame. The artwork is 3D and realistic, evoking a sense of enchantment and fascination. This screenshot is from a Sora video, capturing a moment of mesmerizing exploration.
Prompt: Animated scene features a close-up of a short fluffy monster kneeling beside a melting red candle. art 3D and realistic. The mood of the painting is one of wonder and curiosity, as the monster gazes at the flame with wide eyes and open mouth/ Screenshot from a Sora Video.

What if you wanted to experience what life under the sea would look like with some specific fishes swimming around you? What if you wanted to be a short movie creator? What if you had a childhood creative play character inside your head, and you wanted to show it to everybody? What if you wanted your religious considerations turned into beautiful, thoughtful animations? Now you can do it all; you just have to wait for the public launch of Sora.

A beautifully crafted papercraft world resembling a coral reef, filled with vibrant fish and sea creatures. The intricate details showcase the colorful marine life in this enchanting underwater scene. The image, captured from a Sora video, transports viewers into a mesmerizing world of artistic wonder and aquatic beauty.
Prompt: A gorgeously rendered papercraft world of a coral reef, rife with colorful fish and sea creatures/ Screenshot from a Sora video.

The students can now just type in a prompt and move back in history to actually experience what it felt like to be a part of the World Wars, the launch of the first moon mission, or how Newton discovered the theory of gravity while sitting in his garden at Woolsthorpe Manor. These historical concepts for students can really be elucidated easily through ChatGPT Sora, for sure.

Weblink: https://openai.com/sora

Sora, however, has a watermark on the right side corner of it so that people can be aware of the fact that although the lovely ideas are all yours, the credit for the beautiful depiction of illustrations still belongs to AI alone.

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Bushra Shahzad
Tech and Me, Loving It or Hating It

I write because I always have ideas and views pouring into my mind! 🇵🇰