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.

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,

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.

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 practices.

Earlier this year OpenAI unveiled Sora, a text-to-video AI model, showing off detailed scenes and complex camera motion from relatively simple prompts. It's been radio silence since then, but the company recently granted artists free early access to the tool for testing.

OpenAI granted early access to Sora, its new generative-AI video tool, to some 300 visual artists and filmmakers to “gain feedback” on the technology. The tech company got it - but not the kind it was hoping for.

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.