Altman: Sora team made feed AI-only despite my initial pushback
Sam Altman · Sam Altman on Sora, Social Media, The Future of AI, and More · Oct 10, 2025 · at 10:57
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discusses product design decisions behind OpenAI's video generation platform Sora.
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“One design decision the team made that I thought was really great, and I was actually pushing them in a different direction earlier on, and then I decided they were totally right, and I thanked them and dropped it, was the fact that the feed is AI only. And not a mix of AI plus some uploaded videos.”
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