Given that OpenAI call themselves "Open", I think it's great and hilarious that we're reusing their names.

There was OpenSora from around this time last year:

https://github.com/hpcaitech/Open-Sora

And there are a lot of other products calling themselves "Sora" as well.

It's also interesting to note that OpenAI recently redirected sora.com, which used to be its own domain, to sora.chatgpt.com.

But seriously, I had the same thought, considering the general lack of guardrails surrounding high-profile Chinese genAI models... Eventually, someone will know the answer... It's inevitable...

You understand that china has "different" view on copyright,license etc right??

As my mom retired from being a translator, she went from typewriter to machine-assisted translation with centralised corpus-databases. All the while the available work became less and less, and the wages became lower and lower.

In the end, the work we do that is heavily robotic will be done by less expensive robots.

With AI tools artists will be able to push further, doing things that AI can't do yet.

It’s a very emotionally loaded space for many, meaning most comments I read lean to the extremes of either argument, so seeing a comment like yours that combines both makes me curious.

Would be interesting to hear a bit more about how you see the role of copyright in the AI space.

In terms of losing styles, that is already been happening for ages. Disney moved to xeroxing instead of inking, changed the style because inking was “too hard”. In the late 90s/early 2000s we saw a burst of cartoons with a flash animation style on TV because it was a lot easier and cheaper to animate in flash.

The result will be less original art. They will simply stop creating it or publishing it.

IMO music streaming has similarly lead to a collapse in quality music artistry, as fewer talented individuals are incentivised to go down that path.

AI will do the same for illustration.

It won’t do the same for _art_ in the “contemporary art” sense, as great art is mostly beyond the abilities of AI models. That’s probably an AGI complete task. That’s the good news.

I’m kinda sad about it. The abilities of the models are impressive, but they rely on harvesting the collective efforts of so many talented and hardworking artists, who are facing a double whammy: their own work is being dubiously used to put them out of a job.

Sometimes I feel like the tech community had an opportunity to create a wonderful future powered by technology. And what we decided to do instead was enshittify the world with ads, undermine the legal system, and extract value from people’s work without their permission.

Back in the day real hackers used to gather online to “stick it to the man”. They despised the greed and exploitation of Wall Street. And now we have become torch bearers for the very same greed.

I don't think they'd be artists, but AI-prompters, although you're right that there will be a huge flood of content.