This Video Was Generated by Sora, the New Model by OpenAI

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This Video Was Generated by Sora, the New Model by OpenAI is a catchphrase used in a series of parodies on Twitter / X, and elsewhere, that wrongfully label normal viral videos as AI-generated videos, referencing tweets about OpenAI's new AI Video generator Sora which released in February 2024.

Origin

On February 15th, 2024, OpenAI posted a tweet^[1] that announced Sora, the company's new text-to-video software. The tweet included an AI-generated video, gaining over 183,000 likes in three days.

Later February 15th, 2024, X^[2] user @duborges tweeted his own Sora-generated video with a long-form caption, reading in bold text, "This video was generated by Sora." His caption also included italicized text reading his prompt. The tweet gained over 15,000 likes in three days (shown below).

On February 16th, 2024, X^[3] user @jojammss posted the first-known viral parody of the format, attaching a video of Jerma eating a burger with, "This video was generated by Sora, the new model by OpenAI. 𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘵: 𝘔𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘴 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘭𝘦𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘮𝘴 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴." The tweet received roughly 127,000 likes in two days (shown below). It also received a community note.

Spread

Going into February 2024, users on the platform continued to post parodies that wrongfully labeled videos as Sora-generated. For instance, on February 16th, 2024, X^[4] user @_dwaingang posted a video of a "𝘗𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘵: 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘬𝘦𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦 𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘴." The tweet gained over 1,300 likes in two days (shown below).

On February 17th, 2024, X^[5] user @cvsilly_ posted a sped-up video of a man running on a treadmill, joking that the prompt was "𝗛𝗼𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝘁," gaining over 5,700 likes in less than a day (shown below).

Various Examples

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