#’Surreal Elderhood’ using OpenAI’s text-to-video model, Sora

Katsukokoiso.AI is a project from professional photographer Eugenio Marongiu, an alpha tester on OpenAI’s text-to-video model Sora. Marongiu used the unreleased Sora model to create a piece titled “Surreal Elderhood,” which aims to balance absurdity and striking realism.

Earlier users of Sora pointed out the system can be tricky to work with and can’t be trusted to put out a final product. And of course the entire technology is controversial — but that hasn’t stopped artists like Marongiu from experimenting.

Marongiu said Sora helped accelerate his typical image-based creation process, which “involves creating images and animating them afterward. With Sora, I’m finally able to fully embrace text-to-video generation…” He also added that “The most time-consuming part, as always, was the conceptualization, testing, and editing. Overall, it took about two days.”