Android Users Can Now Make Sora AI Work Like a Charm.
If you follow the development of generative AI, especially video models, you’ve likely heard of Sora , OpenAI’s app for short AI-powered videos. Although the app has only been available for a little over a month, you’ve likely seen Sora videos in your other feeds —whether you realized it or not .
Sora is capable of creating hyper-realistic videos using artificial intelligence, which are sometimes difficult to distinguish from real-life scenes. The app’s “cameo” feature, which allows real people to be inserted into these videos, doesn’t help matters either, leading to confusion and the risk of spreading misinformation. While memes can be funny, in my opinion, they’re of little use.
Until now, Sora was only available on iOS. So, while iPhone users in the US could try the app for themselves, Android users were largely left out. If you had a Pixel, Galaxy, or any other non-Apple phone, you had to look for other AI-powered video viewing and creation apps. All the Sora apps you saw in Android stores turned out to be counterfeits .
Now everything has changed. As of Tuesday, November 4th, Sora is available for free download on the Google Play store . Sora announced the news on Tuesday afternoon, announcing that the app is ready for users in the US, Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. To conclude the announcement, Sora included an AI-generated video of a reporter interviewing an alien about Sora’s landing on Android (no pun intended):
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With the app’s release in the Play Store, Android users will find themselves in a slightly different situation than iOS users did when the app first launched. Initially, free users were limited to 30 generations per day, but last week, they were able to create even more videos for a fee . The app’s cameo feature is also experiencing some difficulties , as Sora had to ban users from creating cameos of famous figures like Martin Luther King Jr. However, you can still create cameos of your pets and inanimate objects.
With the advent of a completely new user platform, the amount of hyper-realistic AI content will only grow. Sora does apply a watermark to all videos, but finding ways to remove it is not difficult . As I’ve been saying for most of this year , it’s time to stop assuming that what you see in your feeds is real. It’s now much safer to assume that what you see is fake: if a video is real, its creator can prove its authenticity.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Lifehacker’s parent company, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April, alleging that it infringed Ziff Davis’s copyrights in the training and operation of its artificial intelligence systems.