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Morin: Generative video gains will accrue to big media, not individual creators
“Like the same thing that's going on, Sam, you've made this point quite repeatedly that the spoils of the AI war go to the big guys you know, in tech, I think the same thing goes for media, like the spoils of the AI war with Sora and video are also going to go …”
Dave Morin Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 11:31 #77: Sora Reveal, Google's AI Agents and Digital Trade Under Trump · More or Less Podcast
Opinion
Brit Morin: OpenAI Sora blows Meta's video tools out of the water
“I think compared to like Meta AI's video stuff they just launched recently, it, Kind of blows them out of the water, and so I think the AI social wars are definitely heating up.”
Brit Morin Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 7:18 #119 OpenAI Sora vs. TikTok: Can “AI Entertainment” Fund the Compute Bill? · More or Less Podcast
Opinion
Sam Lessin: Sora is loose on copyright, strict on content moderation
“I'm just saying like that they've got, it's they've got a very interesting model going on right now where it's very loose on copyright and extremely tight on content moderation.”
Sam Lessin Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 14:38 #119 OpenAI Sora vs. TikTok: Can “AI Entertainment” Fund the Compute Bill? · More or Less Podcast
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Sam Lessin: Cartoon-like Sora video generations will be a short-lived fad
“The, what's cool about it is like the, just like the, what is it, the glibly, like the cartoons people are doing is it's clearly going to be a fad.”
Sam Lessin Oct 3, 2025 ▶ 15:16 #119 OpenAI Sora vs. TikTok: Can “AI Entertainment” Fund the Compute Bill? · More or Less Podcast
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