--- title: "OpenAI Says Sora Video Generator May Allow Nudity" description: "OpenAI is not ruling out its forthcoming Sora video generator creating nudity — and that could be bad news for the company." date: "2024-03-19" modified: "2024-03-19" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-sora-expert-concerns" categories: - "Artificial Intelligence" - "OpenAI" tags: - "mira murati" - "OpenAI" - "sora" - "the digest" --- # OpenAI Says Sora Video Generator May Allow Nudity ![OpenAI is not ruling out its forthcoming Sora video generator creating nudity — and that could be bad news for the company.]() *\Image: Getty / Futurism\* ## Full Frontal OpenAI isn't ruling out that its forthcoming Sora video generator might create nudity — and that could be bad news for the company. In a sweeping [interview with the *Wall Street Journal*]() about the forthcoming tool, OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati suggested that the company hasn't yet figured out the whole nudity thing. "I’m not sure," Murati told the *WSJ*'s reporters when asked about nudity. "You can imagine that there are creative settings in which artists might want to have more control over that. Right now we are working with artists, creators from different fields to figure out what’s useful, what level of flexibility the tool \[should\] provide." It's a surprisingly candid answer that may have been overlooked during the interview's now-infamous [YouTube training data moment](), but some experts are worried that if Sora does allow for "creative" nudity, it may open the proverbial porn floodgates. "OpenAI has a challenging decision to make around this, because for better or worse, the reality is that probably 90 percent of the demand for AI-generated video will be for pornography," Daniel Colson, the founder and executive director of the AI Policy Insitute (AIPI), [told *Quartz*](). "That creates an unpleasant dynamic where, if centralized companies creating these models aren’t providing that service, that creates an extremely strong incentive for the gray market to provide that service." ## Birthday Suit Given how easy it is to [exploit AI models]() into providing outputs that go [against their guardrails](), there'll almost certainly be people trying to trigger Sora into making porn anyway, which does indeed put the world's foremost AI firm in a situation in which its' damned if it does and damned if it doesn't. As [public polling indicates](), people are not only concerned about the use of AI models to generate deepfake porn as they did with those [disgusting images of Taylor Swift]() earlier in the year, but 86 percent also believe the companies behind such easily-exploited tools should be held accountable for their loose guardrails. "That really points to how the public is taking this tech seriously," Colson continued. "They think it’s powerful. They’ve seen the way that technology companies deploy these models and algorithms and technologies, and it leads to completely society-transforming results." It's a salient set of concerns that the general populace seems to understand — so why doesn't OpenAI? **More on Sora:** [*Tyler Perry Nixes Huge Film Studio Expansion, Says He Can Just Green Screen in Backgrounds From OpenAI's Sora*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()