The App That’ll Be Bigger Than TikTok

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
So, last night, I downloaded an app that blew my mind, and it's called Sora. And I don't say that casually. I'm not trying to be an AI thought leader who's like, holy crap, the new model is so unbelievable. They just changed the game. No, no, no. This app was weird. Weird in a way that I haven't like, hasn't settled yet.
Okay, so basically OpenAI, the makers of Chad GPT, have released a new app called Sora. And when you hear it, I think the first reaction is a big eye roll. It's a feed-like TikTok. But hey, all the videos are made AI. You don't have to worry about like, is this a fake video? They're all fake videos, okay? And so the initial reaction from the SmartGuy community was like, literally like, oh good, pure AI slop. In fact, there were some great tweets about this that I just want to call out for humor and excellence. Chris Bocchi had a great one. He goes, Sam Altman, open AI, we're gonna cure brain cancer. Open AI today, we created brain cancer. Like the worst thing you could do is just a feed of AI, AI slop basically. But when you go in, it's not AI slop. I think that's a thing that gets you cool points on the internet. I don't think it's what's going on here. And I think you're gonna be on the wrong side of history if you try to resist this. And so you open up the app. The way it works is like ChatGPT, you can type anything and it's gonna create an AI video. But the very first thing it does, the camera's on. And this is not like any onboarding I've ever done in any other app. The camera's on and it says, say these three numbers out loud. And you're like, all right, 12, 74, 88 It's like, cool, stole your voice, got it. Like, what? It's like, yeah, we can use AI to do your voice from those three numbers, got it. And it's like, hey, just look to the right real quick. There's something over there. You look over to the right, it's like, got your face. All right, now we can put, those two little actions, you sang three numbers, you looking at the camera and then looking to the side, it now can recreate your face.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:11)
I did mine last night in bed. I made one that said, I made a few actually. The first one was, put me in a Ralph Lauren ad, which is hilarious, but the really shocking one, I said, make it look like I have a ponytail. And let me, Arie, share that ponytail one, it's scary. I let it grow out over the last year, it feels completely different, but I kind of like it. It's easy enough to keep in shape, just to rinse in some conditioner and let it do its thing. When I'm working your need out of my face, I just pull it back like this. Simple, feels good.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:40)
So this app is unbelievable. I did one where I said me, ding dong ditching somebody, used like the ring camera footage, and then I cartwheel away to hide. All right, here we go. Quick knock.

**SPEAKER_2** (2:56)
And I'm out.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:57)
Perfect.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:01)
How does it know your height and stuff?

**SPEAKER_1** (3:04)
It just inferred my entire body from my face, which is disappointing in its own way.

**SPEAKER_2** (3:12)
That looks real.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:14)
Yeah.
So you could do it for yourself. Now, watch this one I just sent. You could also use other people if they let you. So Sam Altman, the founder of OpenAI, he's available to be used. So if you just tag, you're just like, me talking to Sam Altman or whatever. But in this case, somebody was like, they use Sam Altman and they were making fun of the idea of the AI Slop. Have you seen this one?

**SPEAKER_2** (3:42)
Are my piggies enjoying their slop? This is crazy. This is 100%, I think, better than TikTok, actually. I think it's better than TikTok. And this is V1. It's so good.

**SPEAKER_1** (3:59)
So there's a couple of kind of... So I think this is going to be... So here's a couple of predictions. I think this is going to be the most downloaded app in the history of the world in a short period of time. So I think it'll be like the fastest to get to 100 million downloads because I think it will happen in like... Like right now it's gated by you need an invite code. But as soon as they open that gate, or if they open that gate in short order, this thing would get 100 million plus downloads very, very quickly.