Videos created with AI: Sora surpasses 1 million downloads

Sora, OpenAi’s app for creating and sharing clips created with AI, has exceeded 1 million downloads ten days after launch. The number of downloads of ChatGpt, OpenAi’s most famous creature, also exceeded in the same time interval. According to the numbers released by Appfigures analysts, in the first seven days of availability Sora was downloaded on iOS 627,000 times, compared to 606,000 for ChatGpt in the same launch window. The app is currently only available for iPhone, by invitation, and outside the European Union and the United Kingdom. In total it has exceeded 1 million downloads.

Bill Peebles, head of Sora development at OpenAI, updated the numbers with a post on X: “Sora reached 1 million downloads, faster than ChatGpt. The team works hard to keep up with the unstoppable growth. More features and fixes are coming“As the site writes Techcrunchthe adoption of Sora is raising concerns about the creation of deepfakes, including of deceased people, although OpenAI has inserted barriers to avoid the creation of videos of known people.

Deepfakes with Robin Williams

According to Bloomberg, “as Sora’s capabilities improve, it could spark concerns about risks in the film industry, as well as making it more difficult to distinguish the authentic from the fakes.” The creation of had caused a scandal deepfake footage starring Robin Williamsso much so that his daughter Zelda launched an appeal asking to stop making hoax videos exploiting the image of her father, who committed suicide.

Appfigures highlights how Sora has seen steady adoption since day one. The data indicates that daily downloads on iOS peaked at 107,800 installs on October 1, before settling between 98,500 daily installs on October 4 and 84,400 on October 6.

Deepfake crime

The news arrives on the very day in which the legislation on artificial intelligence comes into force in Italy introduces the crime of deepfakeone of the main points of the legislation which places Italy as the first European country to adopt a text on AI. In the text we never directly talk about deepfakes, but about videos, audio and images altered with artificial intelligence tools that cause harm to the people involved. The crime is punished with imprisonment from one to five years.