Earlier this year, OpenAI introduced an artificial intelligence model called Sora that is capable of creating realistic high-resolution videos up to 60 seconds long. As of today, Sora remains unavailable to the general public, but OpenAI has opened it to a select group of visual artists, designers, and filmmakers to assess the potential harms and risks associated with using this AI.

One of the first Sora users was Paul Trillo, a writer and director who can now be credited with the first official music video using the Sora model, Venture Beat reports.

The video was shot for the indie chillwave artist Washed Out (Ernest Weatherly Green Jr.) for his new single The Hardest Part. The video showcases the continuous zoom effect achieved by stitching together a series of 55 clips created from 700 clips generated by Sora. These clips were easily edited using Adobe Premiere, which Trillo detailed on the social network X. He also added that he first came up with the idea for the video 10 years ago, but then abandoned it. Now Sora has given the director the opportunity to return to this idea and realize it.

Trillo emphasized that the video was created exclusively using Sora’s text-to-video capabilities, without using other common techniques such as rotoscoping or other visual effects tools that are widely used in other AI projects.

Despite the generally positive response to the Washed Out video, Trillo’s project has started a new series of debates in the creative community about the ethical implications of AI in the arts, including concerns about copyright infringement and proper compensation for artists whose work is used to train such models.