Marques Brownlee may have caught OpenAI training on his videos
This week, OpenAI released the first publicly available version of Sora, its AI video-generation tool. Sora generates impressive (and sometimes creepy) short videos from text prompts.
In the course of reviewing the latest version of Sora, tech influencer Marques Brownlee was playing around with the tool when he asked it to make a video that describes a tech reviewer talking about a smartphone — something you will find Brownlee doing for his 19 million YouTube subscribers.
Brownlee noticed something curious about the resulting video: it included a distinctive and familiar potted fake plant sitting on the desk of the AI-generated reviewer, suspiciously similar to one that’s appeared in Brownlee’s videos.
“Are my videos in that source material? Is this exact plant part of the source material? Is it just a coincidence? I don’t know,” Brownlee said in his review.
OpenAI’s system card for Sora says it was trained on “diverse datasets,” including “select publicly available data, mostly collected from industry-standard machine learning datasets and web crawls.”
Brownlee noticed something curious about the resulting video: it included a distinctive and familiar potted fake plant sitting on the desk of the AI-generated reviewer, suspiciously similar to one that’s appeared in Brownlee’s videos.
“Are my videos in that source material? Is this exact plant part of the source material? Is it just a coincidence? I don’t know,” Brownlee said in his review.
OpenAI’s system card for Sora says it was trained on “diverse datasets,” including “select publicly available data, mostly collected from industry-standard machine learning datasets and web crawls.”
