Sora, the latest AI text-generating video tool developed by OpenAI, has been leaked recently because early testers of Sora claimed that they were used as free agents during the testing process. It is alleged that OpenAI never expressed gratitude and paid remuneration, so it was dissatisfied and leaked Sora, which had not yet been launched, to the social platform.
"PR-Puppets" leaked out of Sora, accusing OpenAI of using testers as free labor
A group of artists and testers calling themselves "PR-Puppets" recently released OpenAI's unreleased AI model Sora, claiming that they were treated unfairly by OpenAI. PR-Puppets stated that the testers were originally told that they would become Sora’s early creative partners and participate in the testing and optimization process, but in the end they became free workers.
PR-Puppets accused OpenAI in an open letter: "We provided a lot of testing, creation process and feedback. Not only did we not get due compensation, we also found that all this was just to create artistic packaging for Sora and promote this AI tool to everyone. How friendly to creators.”
PR-Puppets also stated that there are currently as many as hundreds of artists participating and contributing a lot of time and energy, but OpenAI has never expressed gratitude or paid them. Furthermore, OpenAI’s current company valuation is as high as $157 billion, but it has obliterated the efforts of contributors during the testing phase.
PR-Puppets publicly accused OpenAI on the AI development platform and leaked Sora. Sora was briefly online, and the video generation function sparked heated discussions.
PR-Puppets uploaded the front-end version of Sora to the AI development platform HuggingFace on 11/26, which immediately attracted a lot of attention. Many netizens shared the resulting video on Twitter. However, the leaked Sora only survived for a few hours before it was removed from the shelves by OpenAI.
Netizens used Sora to generate videos and shared them on Twitter
Some film directors also expressed on Twitter that they were amazed by Sora's technology, especially when handling arm and leg movements.
In addition, some netizens discovered from the program code that the Sora leaked this time seems to be the "Turbo" version, and it also has more customization options and video style generation control functions that Sora may provide in the future.
Netizens discovered what appears to be the Sora "Turbo" version of the program code. Behind Sora's technological innovation, the project cooperation method is still controversial.
Sora was first launched by OpenAI in February this year. At that time, it shocked the world with its ability to generate hyper-realistic videos. According to foreign media reports, in order to improve the generation effect and diversity of Sora, OpenAI used hundreds of millions of hours of video data to train the AI model.
However, this tester protest also indicates that OpenAI still has disputes over project cooperation, and so far OpenAI has not responded to the matter.
(OpenAI’s new round of financing is valued at $157 billion and will be reorganized into a for-profit enterprise?)
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