Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands

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We need to talk about something uncomfortable when it comes to Sora 2 — OpenAI's new video-making app that I've truly enjoyed using.Looking at some of the videos people have made — starring me — a little red light went off in my mind: This looks like fetish content.Here's what happened: A few days into playing around with Sora, I noticed an unsettling video someone had made of me. I've allowed anyone to make "cameos" using my face. (You don't have to do this: You can choose settings that make your likeness private, or open to just your friends — but I figured, why not? And left my likeness open to everyone, just like Sam Altman.)I found a stranger had made a video where I appeared pregnant. A quick look at the user's profile, and I saw that this person's entire Sora profile was made up of this genre — video after video of women with big, pregnant bellies. I recognized immediately what this was: fetish content.Like I said, I'd been having a lot of fun on Sora, letting friends and even strangers make silly videos with my face. But the idea that someone was making a video that had some potential sexual gratification element made me feel fairly icked out.Over the next week or so, I noticed a few more videos that I immediately recognized from years of poking around the underbelly of the internet as niche fetishes: belly inflation videos where my stomach inflated massively, Violet Beaugregard-style, or giantess videos where I and two other women towered over a cityscape (and another where we were miniature). Some of these accounts make these kinds of videos with purely AI-generated women, not cameos of real people — I found a bunch of accounts like this dedicated to making vore, foot worship, crushing, and other niche, non-nude fetishes.A significant portion of the videos people made with my face are fetish contentAt first, it was just one or two videos. But it picked up steam. In the last week or so, 10 out of the 25 most popular cameos using my face are various fetishes...

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