OpenAI is putting its powerful video creation tool, Sora, in the hands of basically every one of the millions of people who pay for ChatGPT, the company said yesterday. Why it matters: We're about to witness an at-scale experiment in what it means for people to create and consume large quantities of video content that is photorealistic but fake.

After nearly a year of delays and development setbacks, OpenAI has finally released its video-generation model, Sora, but only to select paying customers.The Latest Tech News, Delivered to Your Inbox

Sora has been available mainly to a small group of safety testers, or “red-teamers,” who test the model for vulnerabilities in areas such as misinformation and bias.