How to remove Sora 2 watermark?

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Hi everyone… I was wondering if its possible to remove sora-2 watermarks, or is that against the terms and condition?

If you look at the videos from openai’s youtube channel you’ll see that there is no water marks on it… I get that it could be used in a malicious way, but couldn’t openai just add a toggle button that opens a warning modal/pop-up that you’ll be legally liable and perma banned if used in a malicious way if turning off the watermark? maybe make this available only for pro-user with the whole face recognition thing that already exists on the api for some of the models on tier-5?

the issue is that it renders the generated videos unusable in a professional scenario… so while it (the watermarks) slightly mitigates the risk of others not knowing its a LLM generated video, it also heavily hinders the usability of such generated videos… and, a lot of the public that doesn’t follow the LLM world doesn’t even know what sora is.. I did an experiment recently and asked what those watermark is and they either didn’t know what it was or though it was a video editor watermark…

there is always the open source video making models which are jail broken by default but as with anything that contains less compute, the quality is worse

so I’m wondering, is there a way to not have a watermark? maybe through the api? maybe on sora-2 webapp?

one could also train a self made model to remove the watermark but honestly, it’s quite a bit of work with its own set of edge case problems

I get that the legal team might’ve imposed this, but is that really the best way to approach LLM made videos? to just put this huge watermark that one could just put their own logo over it with minimal editing (or automated coding) skills to get around it?

I’d love to use sora-2 api on a professional scenario, but right now, its only good for sharing with friends as a distraction, not really something that would scale the token usage…

please feel free to discuss AI safety on this topic! I’m really open minded to hear all kinds of takes on this and i think it would be a good time to reflect on it!

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I haven’t heard anything official, but I imagine they’ll remove it eventually like the first model.

Hopefully sooner rather than later!

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oh, I didn’t know sora-1 removed the watermarks! cool!

also, in terms of the opt-in removal of content.. i find that dangerous

how long until deepseek’s team launches something like deepvideos that doesn’t have to follow all the legal restrictions openai has to follow and we endup with another tiktok on our hands that is used for intel data collection?

honestly, in my humble opinion, congress should just give openai and the other LLM companies the freedom of usage of any data they seem fit for nation security reasons for a balanced competitive scenario

i get it that movie studios want to be compensated, but the whole war that went on seems very petty and counter productive..

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In the few tests I’ve made, there was no noticeable watermark when using sora 2 through the API.

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Yes, I see the same, and I think that’s due to the fact that to get access to API you must verify your identity and agree to terms of misuse. Make sense, professionals want a pure video, but also it could be use in a malicious manner, so releasing that to the masses is potentially dangerous.

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I’m cancelling my Pro membership in 10 days if it is not removed. Why would you fraudulently charge people money for a PRO/Business service when you can’t use any of the output in a professional or business way? I am so disappointed in this company. They had a chance to be different, but they chose to be like Google and Microsuck.

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I can’t wait. Let’s go. The market only cares about can you compete. The rules are for people who want to lose the tech races that these products create.

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I’m on the business plan and still getting watermarks? To make it worse, they’re jumping around all over the place and it’s very distracting. It makes the content totally unusable.

I would certainly be willing to verify identity as well as provide any needed business documentation/ sign against misuse.

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