Youtube's Biggest Star MrBeast Fears AI Could Impact 'Millions of Creators' After Sora Launch

An anonymous reader shares a report: YouTube megastar Jimmy Donaldson, the creator behind the platform's biggest channel MrBeast, is worried there are 'scary times' ahead for the creator economy as AI video tools make it increasingly difficult to tell what is real.

'When AI videos are just as good as normal videos, I wonder what that will do to YouTube and how it will impact the millions of creators currently making content for a living.. scary times,' Donaldson said on X on Sunday. Donaldson's concerns come on the heels of OpenAI's release of a Sora social media platform able to AI generated short-form videos, including of individuals who 'upload' themselves onto the app. Meta launched its similar video-generating Vibes platform last month.

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