Despite recent leaps forward in image quality, the biases found in videos generated by AI tools, like OpenAI's Sora, are as conspicuous as ever. A WIRED investigation, which included a review of hundreds of AI-generated videos, has found that Sora's model perpetuates sexist, racist, and ableist stereotypes in its results. In Sora's world, everyone is good-looking. Pilots, CEOs, and college professors are men, while flight attendants, receptionists, and childcare workers are women. Disabled people are wheelchair users, interracial relationships are tricky to generate, and fat people don't run. 'OpenAI has safety teams dedicated to researching and reducing bias, and other risks, in our models,' says Leah Anise, a spokesperson for OpenAI, over email. She says that bias is an industry-wide issue and OpenAI wants to further reduce the number of harmful generations from its AI video tool. Anise says the company researches how to change its training data and adjust user prompts to generate...
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