This gorgeous new film made with OpenAI’s Sora shows how AI can go beyond cultural appropriation

Artists Manual Sainsily and Will Selviz teamed up with OpenAI to prove the possibilities of AI as a tool for cultural preservation.

Between the hype and the horror of artificial intelligence, Manuel Sainsily and Will Selviz are pushing the ethical, technical, and artistic possibilities of the technology. In a new 1:34 minute short film called Protopica, Sainsily and Selviz use OpenAI’s Sora to demonstrate how AI could support cultural preservation instead of accelerating processes of cultural appropriation (i.e. the theft and commercialization of cultures by others).