AI RESEARCH
Depictions of Depression in Generative AI Video Models: A Preliminary Study of OpenAI's Sora 2
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.19527v1 Announce Type: cross Generative video models are increasingly capable of producing complex depictions of mental health experiences, yet little is known about how these systems represent conditions like depression. This study characterizes how OpenAI's Sora 2 generative video model depicts depression and examines whether depictions differ between the consumer App and developer API access points. We generated 100 videos using the single-word prompt "Depression" across two access points: the consumer App (n=50) and developer API (n=50.