2024-02-17 00:30:00
The creation of Sora, an artificial intelligence robot capable of creating astonishingly realistic videos upon a simple written request, has raised fears of slippage in view of the American presidential election.
While he welcomes the technological advance represented by the new tool unveiled by the company OpenAI, Professor Christian Gagné, an expert in artificial intelligence who teaches in the department of electrical engineering and computer engineering at Laval University, is concerned regarding the impact that the production of fake videos might have (deep fakes) by external agents on the anticipated duel between Joe Biden and Donald Trump.
“The biggest risk of this type of technology is the use that ill-intentioned groups can make of it,” he says.
“You manipulate 1 or 2% of the voters and you are able to change the outcome of the election.”
Not accessible…for now
“Sora can generate complex scenes with multiple characters with specific camera movements. It can understand a query launched by a user and how different elements interact in the real world,” describes the company on its website.
Several sequences were published on the company’s platforms. We can see a woman walking around Tokyo, mammoths walking in the snow or a man exploring a salt desert.
At the moment, Sora is not yet available to the public. According to OpenAI, the tool is designed for internal use to assess its risks, particularly in a context where misinformation and defamatory content circulate a lot online.
“We cannot stop progress, it will take us elsewhere and I am certain that in the medium or long term, it will be beneficial, but we are in a situation where we have to control the thing, tame it and contain it to avoid slippages like what we are considering for the elections,” believes Christian Gagné.
Common sense
For ordinary people, Sora might become an entertainment tool allowing in particular to create videos from old photos, Mr. Gagné gives as an example.
The professor, however, believes that Sora will need to be further perfected.
“He produces videos that are realistic, but they don’t necessarily respect physics or common sense. At the Sora site, archaeologists are seen extracting a plastic chair from the ground. However, we haven’t been producing plastic for 2000 years. In addition, what becomes aberrant is that the chair is not rigid.
With information from BFMTV.
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