Sora not allowing image with 'people'

How long is this nonsense concerning not being able upload an image containing ‘people’ in conjunction with a text prompt going to continue?

Whilst I can appreciate concerns surrounding the power of this new technology and potential abuse, OpenAI’s policies are far too restrictive and need to be balanced with the First Amendment over so called ‘community standards’. There are already long standing libel laws in place to deal with potential bad actors so let the rest of us explore creativity in freedom please.

The most bizarre aspect of all is that Sora will not even accept an image made by Dall E3 which is obviously fictional and made by its sister company for goodness sake! If it’s so clever, why doesn’t it know that?

The concept of video AI is fascinating and in all likelihood will be the closest we will ever come to inventing a time machine! Or, to paraphrase Sir William Lyons, ‘the closest we will come to creating something that is alive’.

I signed up for GPT plus purely to get Sora. If it can produce, I would upgrade to Pro. So far, I don’t see evidence that it can and I am also a paying subscriber to the two other competing products that beat it to market and despite their own growing pains are producing stellar results by comparison. I shall have to take a hard look at keeping GPT when the subscription comes around for renewal if things don’t improve.

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You need a pro subscription to use images with people.

Why? Well. Should be obvious :rofl:

I was in the same boat. Unfortunately not being able to test it with people images, along with some other issues left me deciding to not even bother with pro.

From my research online, other users were reporting that even a Pro account does not solve the problem.

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That’s strange. I recall in the Sora interface it explicitly mentioned that only pro users could use uploaded images of people. Can’t find any information for it anywhere besides some articles of OpenAI claiming that a “subset” of people are allowed to do it.

I also have seen my own image not work, but then when passed to someone with a pro subscription it worked (well, worked as in generated…)

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Hi guys, I have a pro subscription. I’m experiencing with Sora since yesterday. Each time I upload an image with people, it doesn’t work most of the time. The results are still or f*cked up, it doesn’t keep the consistency of the input but imagine things in a weird digital 3D render instead and the scenes have no sense even if I add a text prompt to the image input. I’ve tried everything, I generated more than 30 videos with images inputs and none is even slightly good. I’m so disappointed and a bit angry actually, it’s terrible to make people pay this much for these kind of results, I really hope they will do something to improve this and really quick. If someone has any tips, don’t hesitate, I’m desperate :')

Unfortunately I’ve experienced the same. Trying to use imagery as a base for the generation doesn’t work out very well, including with people.

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I’m sorry for you :pray: but I feel relieved to know that I’m not alone, I thought I was doing something wrong and was going crazy honestly. I even struggle to get good results with simple texte prompt. I can’t get my head around on how to get a certain aesthetic for the render. I get a 3D shitty style every time and the movements are totally random if it last longer than 5s (even with clear instructions). I tried adding custom presets but no matter how I write it, it doesn’t work. I got only one good result and it was using the “film noir” preset.
Anyway, I’m going to keep trying and searching but it feels like they released it wayyy to soon

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Same here; I’m a professional graphic designer. One of my specialties is ‘Talking Avatars’. A photo-to-video tool, refusing to create a video ‘because the photo contains people’ is honestly the strangest thing I have ever experienced, especially when at signing up I have declared to have ownership of all uploaded material. This is over-the-top restriction. Pretty convinced a lot of users will sign-off on this kind of controll.