Sora System Card

Source: OpenAI Date: 2024-12-09 URL: https://openai.com/index/sora-system-card

Summary

The system card for Sora’s public launch — documenting safety evaluations covering deepfakes, non-consensual intimate imagery, CSAM, political content, and real-person impersonation. Also covers the C2PA content provenance standard adoption (cryptographic watermarking), partnerships with film studios and creators during testing, and content policy enforcement mechanisms.

Implications

Safety/generative media thread. Sora’s system card is more comprehensive than DALL-E’s image system cards because video generation’s risks are more severe (more convincing deepfakes, harder to detect manipulation). The C2PA adoption is notable — cryptographic content provenance may become the standard for AI-generated media authentication. The film studio partnership section reveals that OpenAI did extensive industry consultation before launch, which likely shaped which content categories are blocked and which are permitted for professional use.