Sora
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
9warn against
Nov 12, 2025first mention
Oct 27, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Suno and nano banana and Veo and Sora all far exceed the average person's abilities to produce images and videos”
Caveats and dissent
“Oh, right, they completely shut it down, and in the end it didn't "advance" squat.”
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“missing some of the greatest failures like Bard, Dia Browser, Sora”
“people got bored of using Sora pretty quickly”
Often compared with
Threads where it came up
- The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora 3 mentions
- OpenAI set to discontinue Sora video platform 2 mentions
- Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 2 mentions
- Genie 4 1 mention
- FLUX 3 Image Klein 1 mention
- Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash 1 mention
Also written as Sora 2. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
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“Oh, right, they completely shut it down, and in the end it didn't "advance" squat.”
“the abject failure of sora”
> Microdramas are starting to become a real category--14 Billion USD Almost all concrete english-language info I can find about microdramas is astroturfed to hell by consultants and "independent" industry publications. Wikipedia's citations for 2025 revenue are 'Reel Reel' and 'Duanju News'. Neither cite their source, though they are likely just regurgitating predictions from Omdia, a media consultancy. > Real Reel™
“missing some of the greatest failures like Bard, Dia Browser, Sora”
“I had fun using Sora”
“Sora is an impressive display of technology, but a poor product.”
“people got bored of using Sora pretty quickly”
“Not a great look that either the teams responsible for Sora didn't know this was coming”
“it's really not a bad tool”
“Didn't they cut a huge deal with Disney just 3 months ago?”
“Sora was released allowing real people to be generated?”
“why so much emphasis on Sora and unimpressive video AI tech?”
“Sora 2 handles complex camera movements well.”
“Sora is technically impressive and was fun for a moment”
“Text-to-video generation powered by Kling AI, Veo 3, and Sora”
I think ChatGPT was doing that too, at least to some extent, even a couple of years ago. Around the same time as my successful "people sleeping in puddles of ketchup" prompt, I tried similar tricks with uh.... other substances, suggestive of various sexual bodily fluids. Milk, for instance. It was actually really resistant to that. Usually. I haven't tried it in a few versions. Honestly, I use it pretty heavily as a
“Sora 2 requires an OpenAI subscription”
“there were certain historical characters removed from Sora 2 because people kept making racist videos that are hard to censor”
From https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/ It's an equity investment, and yes they're agreeing to a committment to protecting the rights of the creators. > Disney and OpenAI affirm a shared commitment to responsible use of AI that protects the safety of users and the rights of creators. >Alongside the licensing agreement, Disney will become a major customer of OpenAI, using its APIs to build new products, t
“on first try, it won't do it because it recognizes Iger's name”
“Suno and nano banana and Veo and Sora all far exceed the average person's abilities to produce images and videos”
“Sora 2 is coming soon”
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“he is using the Sora model to generate images for his business”