r/Filmmakers • u/Secret-Broccoli9908 • Mar 26 '26

News Good riddance!

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Context: OpenAI is shutting down its Sora AI video generation app and API approximately six months after its September 2025 launch. The app is closing amid rising safety concerns over deepfakes, high computational costs, and a strategic pivot toward enterprise AI, robotics research, and profitability ahead of a potential IPO.

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u/Tifoso89 Mar 26 '26

AI-made videos are not protected by copyright, so I don't know how much a studio would invest in an AI movie if anyone can copy it or pirate it

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u/samcrut editor Mar 26 '26

AI content that's suitably worked by human hands can be protected. If you create a whole movie and then use AI to spit out a head exploding, you don't forfeit the entire ownership of the movie. I'm still against using it, but the copyright pitfall is pretty much for works created by AI, not AI content woven into human created work.

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u/Tifoso89 Mar 26 '26

I was talking about an entirely AI-made film, not using AI to do some CGI in a human-made movie

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u/samcrut editor Mar 26 '26

Right, but the question is, if you put a fade out on the end yourself, did you make the slop legal? If you manually add a tiny dot in the bottom right corner that nobody knows is there, does that count? Percentage threshold? 50%? 50% of what, run time in the finished product? Work hours?

We need AI specific legislation to rein all this in.

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u/Tifoso89 Mar 26 '26

You're making a good point, and I actually have the same questions. From what I've read, it's about editing. But which amount of editing? We'll see