A group of artists who say they were given early access to OpenAI's Sora video generation model released a version of the tool to the public.

The Sora 2.0 leak highlights OpenAI’s AI advancements and raises questions about transparency, unpaid labor, and ethical practices.

A group of artists appears to have leaked access to Sora, OpenAI's video generator, in protest of what it's calling duplicity and "art washing" on OpenAI's part.

But a group of about 20 artists joined an open letter that argued the company had taken advantage of artists’ unpaid labor and was using them to burnish the company’s image. To draw attention to OpenAI’s practices,

Many great AI video generators have emerged since Sora blew people away, but it's hard not to feel like a kid with their nose pressed up against the glass of the toy store, wondering why we can't play with the toys just a little bit.

Quickly, AI experts on social media noticed the posting and confirmed that the page connected to endpoints on OpenAI's actual Sora API and hosting on a videos.openai.com domain, presumably with authentication tokens provided to testers by OpenAI itself.

A group of artists reportedly has leaked early access to OpenAI’s as-yet-unreleased text-to-video AI model Sora, saying that the move is in protest of what the group claims is the company’s use of "unpaid R&D and PR.

Early testers for OpenAI's Sora made the AI video generator publicly available on Tuesday before it was shut down. But we still know next to nothing about the model and the early testing program.

A group of artists has released a link to OpenAI's video creation tool, Sora, in protest at their treatment by the company. The post Artists Leak OpenAI Sora Model in Protest at “Unpaid Labor” appeared first on Tech.