Katsukokoiso.AI is a project by professional photographer Eugenio Marongiu, who is an alpha tester of OpenAI's text-to-video model Sora. Using an unpublished Sola model, Maronge created a piece titled “Surrealistic Elderly People” that aims to balance the absurd with striking realism.
Previous users of Sora have noted that the system can be unwieldy and unreliable to release a final product. And of course, the whole technology is controversial, but that hasn't stopped artists like Maronge from experimenting.
Marongiu said Sora helped accelerate his typical image-based production process. This process “involves creating images and later animating them.” Thanks to Sora, I was finally able to fully embrace text-to-video generation…” Also: “As always, the most time-consuming parts were conceptualizing, testing, and editing. Overall it took about two days.”