OpenAI backer Vinod Khosla slams 'tunnel vision creatives' attacking Sora as 'AI slop' (www.businessinsider.com)

Legendary investor Vinod Khosla publicly defended OpenAI’s newly released Sora 2 video-generation app after critics labeled its outputs “AI slop” and “brain rot.” Sora 2—already topping Apple’s App Store—lets users generate short-form videos from text prompts and images, and even scan their face and voice to insert themselves into scenes. Khosla dismissed negative takes as “tunnel vision creatives,” likening pushback to early reactions against digital music and photography and arguing the tool expands creative possibilities for anyone with imagination. The debate matters because Sora 2 sits at the crossroads of rapid mainstream adoption and serious technical and ethical risks: its realism makes it one of the most accessible deepfake-capable consumer tools to date, and it raises copyright and likeness concerns tied to the datasets and generation controls. OpenAI initially suggested a rights-holder opt-out approach for copyrighted material, then Sam Altman signaled a move toward giving creators “more granular control” (akin to opt-in models for likeness). For the AI/ML community this highlights urgent priorities—robust provenance, consent and rights-management mechanisms, watermarking/detection research, and governance—while also underscoring how powerful generative systems can quickly shift cultural norms and platform dynamics.