A group of artists leaked openai's sora video generator online, claiming the company is using them for unpaid beta testing and pressuring them to spin a positive narrative around the tool. A group of artists, volunteering as beta testers for openai’s sora video ai model, shared the api to access the model on hugging face in protest, calling out what they claim are exploitative. A group of sora beta testers claim to have leaked early access to the video model in protest of the way openai is testing the controversial tool.
Openai, after the leak was available for about three hours, shut down access to sora on wednesday morning Openai shut down its highly anticipated video generation service sora, after artists invited to test its capabilities staged a protest that allowed anyone to use it. The group behind the leak posted its reasoning.