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Artists say they leaked OpenAI’s Sora video model in protest

A screenshot of an AI-generated video produced by Sora
A still from a video generated by OpenAI’s Sora. | OpenAI

OpenAI first teased its text-to-video AI model, Sora, back in February and hasn’t provided any meaningful updates on when it will be released since then. Now, it looks like some artists leaked access to the model in protest of being used by the company for what they claim is “unpaid R&D and PR.”

On Tuesday, a group of Sora beta testers claimed to have leaked early access to Sora with a working interface for generating videos. In a post on Hugging Face, a public repository of AI models, they say that people were able to create lots of AI videos — all of which resemble OpenAI’s own Sora demos — before the company intervened to shut down access. (TechCrunch first reported on the alleged leak.)

From the group’s open letter:

DEAR CORPORATE…

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