alt Hacker NewsThe ability to make videos with public figures / copyrighted fictional characters was taken away in the first few days. Unless you’re referring to the few public figures that signed up in the app and set themselves to public.
You could make them with public figures that aren’t alive any more for a day or two longer, but those get blocked now, too.
That said: I think you’re ultimately right, it’s just that it’s more of a past tense thing. My primary remaining fun use case is to push as close to the guardrails as possible to make embarrassing funny videos of my friends and family members, who are doing the same to me.
Every single video I’ve seen from Sora has been a real person or IP. Stephen Hawking skateboaring, Diddy, Sam Altman shoplifting. They might have blocked it fast but those first few days of videos are still going viral and what everyone knows Sora for.
If you can’t generate videos of real people or movie characters getting arrested or doing insane things, no one is going to care about Sora anymore.