{"id":96449,"date":"2025-11-27T14:09:56","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T14:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qustodio.com\/?p=96449"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:12:14","slug":"is-sora-2-safe-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qustodio.com\/en\/blog\/is-sora-2-safe-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sora 2 safe for kids? A parent\u2019s guide to the AI video generator"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The launch of ChatGPT (GPT-3.5) in November 2022 was a landmark moment for artificial intelligence – OpenAI pulled powerful language models out of research labs and gave the average person access to realistic and human-like AI conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just 3 years later, and the current version of ChatGPT is much more intuitive and faster than its predecessors, makes fewer errors (or hallucinations), and can produce images and voice. Also, pretty much everyone uses it. For everything.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

OpenAI believes the launch of Sora 2 is the \u201cGPT-3.5 moment\u201d for AI video creation, allowing anyone to produce realistic AI videos from simple text prompts.<\/span><\/p>\n

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What is Sora 2, and what can you do with it?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Sora 2 is an AI video generation app created by OpenAI (the AI research company behind ChatGPT) that allows users to produce short videos from a text prompt.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This version represents a huge leap forward from the original Sora model, which produced videos nearly everyone could recognize as fake – teleporting objects, warped motion, inconsistent body movement, unstable items across shots, to name a few of the commonly seen flaws. Sora 2, however, can generate much more realistic movements, more stable worlds, and, unlike the video-only Sora, adds dialogue, sound effects, and audio that match the scene.<\/span><\/p>\n

On top of the realism upgrades, Sora 2 introduces <\/span>\u201cCameos,\u201d<\/b> a feature that allows users to upload their face and voice to appear in AI-generated videos, and it adds a <\/span>TikTok\/Instagram-style feed<\/b> of AI-generated content.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the time of writing, Sora 2 is available as an iOS and Android app, and on desktop, in a <\/span>limited number of countries<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sora 2: the risks parents need to know<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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It might be AI, but videos featuring dangerous stunts and violence can look very real and appeal to young users. Such content is often presented without warnings, with upbeat music, and framed in a cheerful, carefree way – potentially desensitizing teens to serious and violent themes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At the time of writing, the closest thing to parental controls that Sora offers is the settings available for <\/span>connected teen accounts on ChatGPT<\/span><\/a>. A parent can de-personalize a child\u2019s Sora feed, choose whether their teen can send and receive direct messages, and control whether there is an uninterrupted feed of content while scrolling – and that\u2019s about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Parents cannot monitor a teen\u2019s activity on Sora, restrict concerning content, or – perhaps most importantly – prevent a teen from creating and sharing Cameos or stop their likeness from being misused.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sora 2\u2019s \u201cCameos\u201d feature allows users to upload their face and voice so they, and others, can use their likenesses in AI videos. While this can mean hours of fun for teens, Cameos opens a can of worms when it comes to privacy and safety risks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Once your child has uploaded their likeness, other users could create realistic videos of them in <\/span>scenarios they haven\u2019t consented to<\/span><\/a>, which can then be downloaded and redistributed on other platforms – potentially leading to <\/span>cyberbullying<\/span><\/a> and other forms of harassment. For example, a child could create a video featuring a classmate doing something humiliating, which can then be spread throughout the school and beyond.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, once uploaded to Cameos, a user\u2019s face and voice may be used to train OpenAI’s models and be held in facial recognition databases permanently.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The realism of Sora\u2019s AI videos, their lack of moderation, and the speed at which users can generate them, mean that videos containing <\/span>misinformation and fake news<\/span><\/a> can spread fast across on Sora and other platforms. Sora\u2019s personalized feed presents many of the same issues as Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, including <\/span>echo chambers<\/span><\/a> – the risk of being repeatedly exposed to the same kinds of harmful ideas with little or no exposure to alternative views.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To inform viewers that videos created by Sora 2 aren\u2019t real, they feature digital watermarks; however, they can be removed by third-party programs.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Sora 2 and teens: Our recommendations<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Until OpenAI introduces robust parental control features, <\/span>we don\u2019t recommend that teens use Sora 2. <\/b>It\u2019s easy to find content unsuitable for kids – especially videos depicting realistic-looking violence or dangerous situations -and they don\u2019t have warnings. For teens, critical thinking is something that they’re still developing, so they can be more susceptible to believing the misinformation and generally fakery that\u2019s often spread through AI videos.<\/span><\/p>\n

Our main concern with Sora 2 is the \u201cCameos\u201d feature.<\/b> The ability to upload a kid\u2019s face and voice to Sora, and their likeness to be put in videos for others to edit, download, and share, is fraught with potential problems and can open the door to blackmail, cyberbullying, and other forms of harassment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve considered these concerns and still want to allow your teen to use Sora 2, here are a few safety recommendations:<\/span><\/p>\n

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