I have three paradigms for how something like this might “work” or at least be popular:
Filters as used in smartphone photos and videos. Here the power to modify the image takes place strictly as an addendum to the context of real human-to-human communication. The Sora 2 app seems a bit like an attempt to apply this model to the much more powerful capabilities of generative video.
The Sora 1 feed. This is just a feed of images and videos created by users, that other users can vote on. The extra twist is that you can usually see the prompt, storyboard, and source material used to generate them, so you can take that material and create your own variations… This paradigm is that of a genuine community of creators—people who were using Sora anyway, and are now able to study and appropriate each other’s creations. One difference between this paradigm and the “filter” paradigm, is that the characters appearing in the creations are not the users, they are basically famous or fictional people.
Virtual reality / shared gaming worlds. It seems to me that something like this is favorable, if you intend to maximize creative/generative power available to the user, and you still want people to be communicating with each other, rather than inhabiting solipsistic worlds. You need some common frame so that all the morphing, opening of rabbit holes to new spaces, etc, doesn’t tear the shared virtuality apart, geographically and culturally. You probably also need some kind of rules on who can create and puppet specific personas, so that you can’t have just anyone wearing your face (whether that’s your natural face, or one that you designed for your own use).
I have three paradigms for how something like this might “work” or at least be popular:
Filters as used in smartphone photos and videos. Here the power to modify the image takes place strictly as an addendum to the context of real human-to-human communication. The Sora 2 app seems a bit like an attempt to apply this model to the much more powerful capabilities of generative video.
The Sora 1 feed. This is just a feed of images and videos created by users, that other users can vote on. The extra twist is that you can usually see the prompt, storyboard, and source material used to generate them, so you can take that material and create your own variations… This paradigm is that of a genuine community of creators—people who were using Sora anyway, and are now able to study and appropriate each other’s creations. One difference between this paradigm and the “filter” paradigm, is that the characters appearing in the creations are not the users, they are basically famous or fictional people.
Virtual reality / shared gaming worlds. It seems to me that something like this is favorable, if you intend to maximize creative/generative power available to the user, and you still want people to be communicating with each other, rather than inhabiting solipsistic worlds. You need some common frame so that all the morphing, opening of rabbit holes to new spaces, etc, doesn’t tear the shared virtuality apart, geographically and culturally. You probably also need some kind of rules on who can create and puppet specific personas, so that you can’t have just anyone wearing your face (whether that’s your natural face, or one that you designed for your own use).