For a short time on Tuesday, a group of angry artists shared a tool that allows anyone to use OpenAI’s official unreleased Sora AI model, which takes text prompts and turns them into videos.
in open letter Entitled “Dear Corporate AI Champions,” the article, accompanied by an illustration of a person giving the middle finger, invites artists to test products and become creative partners. You wrote that you were offered early access to Sora. Rather, they believe that OpenAI wanted to use hundreds of unpaid AI artists like themselves to “art wash” its exploitative business model.
“Hundreds of artists provide unpaid labor through bug testing, feedback, and experimental work on programs for a company valued at $150 billion,” the group wrote on the AI model hosting platform Hugging Face. “Hundreds of people will donate for free, but a few selected through a contest will have films produced by Sola screened. The rewards pale in comparison to the substantial PR and marketing value OpenAI receives. It’s a minimal reward.”
This letter was written by 16 artists who say they are not opposed to using AI as an artistic tool, and in fact many of them are early adopters of AI in their work, but early access He said he felt it was necessary to protest. The program seemed more like a public relations strategy than an opportunity to freely try out and critique the tool. Videos created using the tool had to be approved by OpenAI before they could be shared.
“What we disagree with is how this artist program is being rolled out and how this tool is being prepared prior to general release,” the group wrote. “We are sharing this with the world in the hope that OpenAI will become more open and artist-friendly and support the arts beyond PR.”
The posted tools are hug face It no longer works, and a note added to the beginning of the letter states that OpenAI has temporarily ended the Sora early access program for artists.
OpenAI teased Sora on February 15th: web page Featuring model-generated videos and a series of videos. Tweet CEO Sam Altman posted a video to X that the model generated based on crowdsourced prompts. Although Altman called this a “remarkable moment,” Sora has not yet been released for use beyond a small group of early testers, some of whom clearly disagreed with OpenAI’s desired use of effort. Some people weren’t thrilled.
In a letter, the artist group urges their peers to use open source video generation tools and urges AI companies to “compensate artists fairly, listen to true artist expression, and provide avenues for true artist expression.” ” he encouraged them.
