A spokesperson for OpenAI issued an official statement in response to the incident. The statement mentioned that the Sora model is still in "research preview" and that the company is trying to balance creativity with strong security measures to enable wider use of the technology in the future. They helped prioritize new features and safeguards. The spokesperson added that the artists' participation was voluntary and there were no mandatory feedback or usage requirements. openAI is pleased to have been able to provide free access to these artists and promises to continue to support them through grants, events, and other programs.
"Futures" Sora's API access has been leaked with a vengeance.
Early this morning, a tweet from X user @legit_rumors read that OpenAI Sora leaked. The tweet was an instant hit.
It is known that a group called "Sora PR Puppets" published access to Sora's models on the Hugging Face platform as a protest against OpenAI's "deception" and "whitewashing" tactics against the art. "whitewashing" tactics.
The organization created a front-end interface that allows users to generate 10-second videos at up to 1080P resolution by entering a short text description.
While the leaked access interface is now dead, there are a number of videos out on the web, all of which bear OpenAI's signature watermark.
As you can see, the leaked version is significantly stronger compared to earlier versions of Sora.
The leaker accuses OpenAI of pressuring early testers of Sora to promote a positive image of Sora, but not paying them accordingly. The organization notes that hundreds of artists provided OpenAI with unpaid bug testing, feedback, and experimental work, but the company, valued at $150 billion, refused to pay.
After three hours, the front-end started not working properly, and it was evident that OpenAI and/or Hugging Face had revoked access.
The "chosen" artists then quickly wrote an open letter to the AI community protesting OpenAI:
"Artists are not your unpaid R&D staff."
"We are not yours: free bug testers, propaganda puppets, training data, validation tokens."
The complete original text follows:
We became early beta testers, red team testers and creative collaborators for Sora. However, we believe that we were lured into 'artistic cleansing' so that we could tell the world that Sora was a useful tool for artists.
Artists are not your unpaid R&D staff.
We are not yours: free bug testers, propaganda puppets, training data, validation tokens.
Hundreds of artists provide unpaid labor to the $150 billion company through bug testing, feedback, and experimental work. While hundreds contribute for free, only a handful emerge from this competition to have their films created with Sora screened -- offering a pittance in comparison to the massive PR and marketing value OpenAI receives.
Allowing multi-billion dollar brands to exploit artists for unpaid R&D and publicity shouldn't be the norm!
In addition, each output needs to be approved by the OpenAI team before it can be shared. This early access project seems to have less to do with creative expression and criticism and more to do with publicity and advertising.
Detecting art cleaning in big business.
We are releasing this tool so that everyone has the opportunity to try out the features that some 300 artists have been offered: free and unlimited access to the tool.
We don't disagree with the use of AI technology as an artistic tool (if we did, we probably wouldn't have been invited to participate in this project). What we don't agree with is the way this artist program is being rolled out, and the way the tool is being shaped before a possible public release. We are sharing this with the world in the hope that OpenAI becomes more open and artist friendly and supports the arts, not just publicity stunts.
We urge artists not to use proprietary tools:
The Open Source Video Generation Tool allows artists to experiment with avant-garde art while being free from gatekeepers, commercial interests, or promotional services for any company. We also invite artists to train their own models using their own datasets.
Some of the available open source video tools:
CogVideoX
Mochi 1
LTX Video
Pyramid Flow
However, as we know, not everyone has the hardware or technical ability to run open source tools and models, and we welcome toolmakers to listen and provide a path to true artist expression and fair compensation for artists.
In addition, they have jointly issued an open letter. To date, the letter has collected 163 signatures.
In a recent Reddit AMA, Kevin Weil, OpenAI's chief product officer, said that Sora has not yet been released because OpenAI still needs to "scale up" the compute power needed to support it and "make sure the security/simulation/etc. is correct". correct".
