By abcnews
Publication Date: 2026-03-25 02:27:00
OpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral as a place to share short videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms.
In a short social media message, OpenAI said it was “saying goodbye to the Sora app” and would soon share more about how to preserve what users have created in the app.
“What you did to Sora was important, and we know this news is disappointing,” it said.
The company behind ChatGPT released Sora in September in an attempt to capture attention and potentially advertising dollars following short-form videos on TikTok, YouTube or Meta’s own Instagram and Facebook pages.
But a growing number of advocacy groups, academics and experts have expressed concern about the dangers of letting people create AI videos of almost anything they can type into a command prompt, leading to the spread of non-consensual images and realistic deepfakes.
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