A group of artists who were testing OpenAI’s Sora text-to-video tool leaked access to it late Tuesday, claiming the artificial intelligence company was engaged in “artist washing” and forcing its testers to only share positive feedback.
OpenAI, after the leak was available for about three hours, shut down access to Sora on Wednesday morning.
The group behind the leak posted its reasoning in a letter titled “Dear Corporate AI Overlords.” The leakers said they were not anti-AI in their letter, but were protesting the tight control OpenAI had over the operation and the messaging related to it.
“This early access program appears to be less about creative expression and critique, and more about PR and advertisement,” the group said.