Straight to Video: From Rodney King to Sora w/ Sam Gregory
Computer Says Maybe14 Marras 2025

Straight to Video: From Rodney King to Sora w/ Sam Gregory

Seeing is believing. Right? But what happens when we lose trust in the reproductive media put in front of us?

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We talked to a global expert and leading voice on this issue for the past 20 years, Sam Gregory to get his take. We started way back in 1992 when Rodney King was assaulted by 4 police officers in Los Angeles. Police brutality was (and is) commonplace, but something different happened in this case. Someone used a camcorder and caught it on video. It changed our understanding about the role video could play in accountability. And in the past 30 years, we’ve gone from seeking video as evidence and advocacy, to AI slop threatening to seismically reshape our shared realities.

Now apps like Sora provide impersonation-as-entertainment. How did we get here?

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