A new AI video model just dropped. Sora 2 by OpenAI.. This might be when AI videos start looking completely real
Not many examples exist yet...
Hereâs a stripped-down version of what Roemmele is saying below without the rhetorical flourishes:
- AI tools like OpenAIâs Sora2 will let anyone instantly generate endless, highly convincing videos with themselves or others inserted.
- At first this feels astonishing (âwowâ), then it becomes a test of limits (âcan it do this?â), and finally it produces apathy (ânothing is real and I donât careâ).
- As this cycle accelerates, shock value disappears, experts canât reliably debunk fakes, and trust in media erodes.
- Over time people become numb to novelty and stop valuing real achievements, art, or historical records because they canât tell whatâs genuine.
- At the same time, physical and digital archives of older media are being destroyed or lost. Without âreceiptsâ the past becomes unverifiable, creating collective amnesia.
- The combinationâdesensitization and amnesiaâdevalues culture and history and leaves society vulnerable to manipulation.
- His advice: consciously preserve archives, guard your own sensitivity to novelty, and be patient with people who havenât yet realized how deep this problem goes.
Thatâs the core message.
THE DESENSITIZED GENERATION
by Brian Roemmele - https://x.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1973388872534073770
Immune To Novelty By AI Video Fatigue
With just a few hours of testing OpenAIâs Sora2 Social Network for my clients and just finished a 218 page report, the thing I thought about for decades is upon us:
Full Desensitization Of Visual Novelty
I knew so many years ago, and one reason I have posted on the account so many novel images and videos that one day we will rapidly become immune to âoh damn, itâs overâ images and video. With Sora2 this desensitization will rapidly accelerate as âyou and your friendsâ build endless videos where you and they are inserted.
Like all things that get abused, the first phase is âwow look at thisâ, the next phase is âcan it do thatâ and the last phase is ânothing is real and I donât careâ.
The shock value of the entire technology become removed but in the final phases it will be pushed to extremes of insults and potentially purposeful directed reputation damage.
This will take place so rapidly as Sora2 and every other social network rushes to take whatever nicely oxygen that is left in the room for more and more âitâs over, we are so cookedâ fantastical videos.
They will continue to get so much better that even the âdebunkerâ experts will give up their âlook at the fingers-type troupeâ, they honestly will not know and soon burn out.
My easy point is get ready to be bored by the novelty of humans that in the past took potentially hours of thier lives to create novelty in reality.
The hard point is what now? Once a society takes something that has increasingly more and more amazing possibilities like AI and rapidly becomes immune to the possibilities the entire industry become devalued because the front facing aspect to AI will be Sora2-like social media.
Humanityâs entire past of astonishing achievements, the high points and the low points and the incredible art we can make will equally become devalued because this fatigue will make us not care and not trust what was real.
Everything will become a forever now where there was no real past because it would take impossible effort to verify it if at all.
Why?
Because not only are we the Desensitized Generation we are also the Amnesia Generation where Petabytes of all forms of media, books, papers, microfilm/microfiche, film, VHS, audio tapes, records, etc is being thrown away or decayed. Not to mention the daily removal of text, images, video and audio from the internet. We simply will not have the receipts, we wonât have the memory and the fatigue is too large to care.
It took 5 dark nights for the Library to burn, the sum total of human knowledge. In our age the burn is slow and rapidly increasing till the pot boils over.
What are the answers?
I have thought about this for decades. I will continue to write about it a lot. But one thing you can do is understand we are rapidly losing our past because almost no one cares. I should not be the only one dumpster diving to save what I can. Also protect your mind and preserve your ânoveltyâ sensitivity because once it is burned out with fatigue, it will never return.
And I ask you to have grace and compassion to those that donât know what we know. You are the 1% of the 1% and must serve a place to help those that can understand what this means and have grace to those who canât. I am serious, be gentle with them as they find the bottom of the hole and hopefully find a way back.
This video below was novel and she risked her life. You are the last generation to understand this.
The post reposted of a CEO head in a toilet, is AI rendered it is not novelty.
In case you don't get it.. The above video has been generated with the Sora 2 AI.
Ma dhâfhaodas tu do cheann a chumail nuair a tha feadhainn eile mun cuairt ort ga chall,
âs aâ cur aâ choire ort;
Ma dhâfhaodas tu earbsa a bhith agad annad fhèin nuair a tha daoine teagmhach ort,
Ach Ă ite a thoirt do an teagamhan cuideachd;
Ma dhâfhaodas tu feitheamh gun sgĂŹos,
No, nuair a tha breugan âga innse mu do dheidhinn, gun a bhith ag innse bhreugan,
No, nuair a tha grĂ in aig daoine ort, gun do chridhe a thoirt do ghrĂ in,
Agus fhathast gun a bhith ro dheas, no ro ghlic ann do chainnt.