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OpenAI Sora video model access leaked as artists protest ‘corporate AI overlords’

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.

A group of artists volunteering as beta testers for OpenAI’s new and unreleased AI video product, Sora, publicly shared access to the tool on Tuesday to protest what they said were the company’s exploitative practices. Marc Rotenberg, founder and executive director of the Washington, D.C.–based Center for AI and Digital Policy, pointed out that the leak was “deeply ironic” since OpenAI was first established as a company whose research was open to all. Still, the fact that the company’s own beta testers are protesting is notable: Over the past several years, artists have voiced growing concerns about exploitative practices in the realm of generative AI, particularly around issues of copyright and content usage.

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