OpenAI has suspended testing access to its Sora video generation platform after the incident where a collective of artists briefly shared their early access through a publicly available webpage, this group was referred to as ‘PR Puppets’.
‘PR Puppets’ assets that their action was a form of protection against being forced to work as unpaid research and development contributors while also engaging in ‘art washing’ of the AI technologies. However, OpenAI has maintained its statement that participation in the early alpha testing is voluntary and it does not obligate any tester to provide feedback.
According to Git commit logs, the ‘Generate with Sora’ access point was made available by PR Pupptes on Hugging Face on Tuesday around 8:30 AM Easter Time. AI experts on social media were quickly attracted to these postings who confirmed that the page linked to endpoints on OpenAI’s actual Sora API. They also mentioned that it was hosted on the videos.openai.com domain, most likely utilizing an authentication token supplied to the testers by OpenAI.
Although the access was revoked within a few hours, many enthusiasts managed to use Sora to create and share their videos on social media platforms before the shutdown. The Washington Post was informed by an OpenAI representative that the company is temporarily putting a pause on all test access to Sora in order to assess the situation. Moreover, some users also examined the cod and uncovered indications of different modes and styles that may be underdevelopment for Sora. Sora generated interest when OpenAI first unveiled its video-generation capabilities in February, after promoting the technology in Hollywood. Mira Murti, Former OpenAI CTO indicated to The Wall Street Journal that a public release of Sora was expected by the end of the year, however, later CPO Kevin Weil mentioned that the launch has been postponed to further refine the model.
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