OpenAI’s Sora 2 shows how artificial intelligence is changing within media creation. With just a short clip of a person’s voice recording and face (and sometimes not at all, for already well-known celebrities), the model can create entire scenes, backgrounds with very realistic and enhanced visuals. Some examples could totally be up to a person’s imagination, like floating through a zero-gravity spaceship, surfing during a sunset, or giving motivational speeches in TED-Talk rooms.
However, prominent creators have expressed concerns, for example, Social media influencer, Kevin Stratvert said, “I am real. I don’t know how to prove it to you, but you’ll have to just trust me on it,” this emphasizes the challenge of knowing what is real or fake, which could cause certain misinformation to spread within communities such as CA, or across the web. Therefore, The same technology has given people a sense of unease as some of the Internet’s most influential creators such as Mr. Beast made a public statement on X (formerly known as Twitter), warning “When AI videos are just as good as normal videos, I wonder what that will do to Youtube and how it will impact the millions of creators making content [...] scary times,” Filmmaker and vlogger Casey Neistat voiced a similar concern which he noted that artificial creativity risks making digital spaces oversaturated with content detached with human emotions. Even the creators of the scientific and educational channel Kurzgesagt released a video called “AI Slop is killing our channel.”
Concord Academy’s mission calls for “A community animated by a love of learning, diverse and striving for equity, with common trust as our foundation.” This mission now faces a present meaning, as artificial intelligence rapidly changes what “real” creativity looks like. For CA, these debates carry meaning. In the future, Sora 2 has the potential to enhance creativity, whether it is used by visual artists, either in the MAC, C.A.C., or for everyday use in education in any department. However, the videos Sora 2 produces can create misuse, such as misleading or harmful content that is intended to imitate others, spread false information, or violate student policy.
As influencers, educators, or students, CA’s own mission statement implores us, AI’s impact depends on how we choose to use it, whether to build “purposeful collaboration and creative engagement [...],” or use it to violate rules that disregard cultivating “empathy, integrity, and responsibility [...].” In the end, it is up to us to decide whether we allow AI to weaken the values of our community or use it to strengthen it.