Characters
The character feature in Sora lets you cast yourself, your friends, and even pets and objects as characters in your videos – with safeguards in place to protect your likeness.
You own your likeness
Only you decide who can use your character
Whether it’s just you, specific people, mutual followers, or everyone.
Set custom instructions for your character to specify how you appear
For example, never in violent or political content, or always with a felt hat.
Additional safeguards for videos with characters
Delete any video with your character in it, at any point
Whether it’s a published video or draft, you always have deletion rights.
Strict mode gives you more granular control
Turn on Strict mode(opens in a new window) for your character to apply tighter guardrails for users you don’t follow.
Strict mode helps limit changes to your appearance, avoid embarrassing or inappropriate scenarios, and keep core aspects of your identity (like gender presentation or religion) broadly consistent so you stay recognizable and in control without having to manually add restrictions—no matter who’s using your character.
Download restrictions and watermarks protect your character
Drafts with your character cannot be downloaded. Published videos with your character will always contain a watermark.
ChatGPT Pro users can download videos containing only their own character without a watermark.
Discover the world of characters
Create a character of yourself
Create a character of your pets
Create a character of your objects
Remix by swapping in characters
Optimize your character
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