OpenAI's upgraded video generator is WILD. Check out the Pikachu videos and "Lord of the Rings" if it were Gen Z 😭

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Joel Abbott

Oct 3, 2025

OpenAI upgraded its video generator service Sora to the 2.0 version this week, and it's ... well, I just need to show you.

None of that was real.

The backgrounds, the characters, the voices, the music - all of it was created by a computer program.

All you do is enter a prompt into the Sora program, like "a video of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman running away from an any mob down a modern city street while yelling into his phone for his team to shut down the servers."

Within a few minutes, the program will give you this:

There are thousands of videos out there now in the wild, and while OpenAI seems to be shutting down clips made with copyrighted material, people began obsessing over videos that show Pikachu in a variety of horrific scenarios.

The next one is a fate worse than death:

Other characters have already gotten mini-movies of their own, too (running away from cops seems to be a theme).

Of all the videos in this A.I. hellscape, however, there's One Video To Rule Them All, And In the Darkness Bind Them:

"You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension." 😭

At least Sauron was better than the Amazon version?


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