A group of early testers released an unauthorized leak of OpenAI‘s text-to-video generator, Sora, online, citing grievances over “unpaid labor” and exploitation of creative professionals.
The leak, which appeared on the AI platform Hugging Face under the username PR-Puppets, has ignited a debate on technological innovation, ethical labor practices, and intellectual property rights, with some 380 verified artists and creators from around the world already having signed the accompanying petition.
Access to this early version of Sora was shut down by OpenAI after three hours, however, many individuals had a chance to test it out and generate AI videos, which are now being shared online, including on X (formerly Twitter). One Hugging Face user has archived over 80 videos, providing download links to the videos and their prompt.
Developed by OpenAI, which recently moved to a for-profit model, this “diffusion model” AI is capable of transforming text prompts into high-fidelity videos of up …