Why OpenAI really shut down Sora

March 29, 2026 Connie Loizos

OpenAI's decision last week to shut down Sora, its AI video-generation tool, just six months after releasing it to the public, raised immediate suspicions. The app had invited users to upload their own faces — so was this some kind of elaborate data grab?

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