The Sora video generation tool developed by OpenAI was temporarily offline after a group of beta testers shared the platform online. Labeled as the Sora PR Puppet, those artists demonstrated to the public a method to produce videos using AI by utilizing Sora’s ultra-luxury text-to-video feature.
OpenAI Sora Video AI Model Leak
Users have therefore questioned how OpenAI treats artists and its early access program following the leak, which took about three hours. Although the company denies the leaked information, it promptly suspended the tool’s access for every user.
As of now, hundreds of artists have been granted an open invitation to experiment with Sora video by OpenAI. But 20 out of the artists with access complained that the company was exploiting them into working for free, and this meant the company wanted to be perceived as helping the artists to polish themselves. As part of calling out OpenAI’s practices, the group of artists made public an online tool that enabled the populace to use Sora to create videos.
Access Deny After Leak
Since the leak, OpenAI has denied all members access to the Sora tool, which the company had suggested was to launch in early February. According to the sources, with the Sora video leak, users were able to create short stereoscopic 10-second videos up to 1080p, mainly watermarked with the logo of OpenAI.
However, the catch was that while the tool appeared viable, this created extended discourses about corporate measures, fair remuneration to artists, and the morality of early access schemes in the technology sector.
The group of testers went to the Hugging Face platform to complain about OpenAI’s early access program. Such artists claimed that “unpaid R&D” and “PR puppets” were among the most active sources that pointed at the company.
They complained of being misled by the promises of becoming co-creators and red teamers only to find themselves limited by OpenAI policies on generated content that required each generated video to be reviewed by OpenAI to be shared. The submission process added another opportunity for the artists to vent their frustration, as it should be unquestionably prejudicial and unethical not to compensate the talent appropriately.