OpenAI Sora leak: What it was and what it wasnt. [Video]

A group of artists that were early testers for OpenAI’s Sora leaked access to the AI video generator on Tuesday. But let’s get the facts straight so the story isn’t oversimplified.

OpenAI has since shut down access to Sora for all early testers. But for about three hours, the public could test out Sora for themselves. According to a statement shared with the demo hosted on Hugging Face, the artists released access to Sora as a protest against “art washing,” which they believe they were “lured into” by OpenAI.

But there’s a little more nuance to the story to than “disgruntled anti-AI artists leak the model.” Let’s dive into what it was and wasn’t.

It was leaked credentials; it wasn’t leaked code.

A leak of Sora may have sounded like a moment of truth that many had been waiting for.

When OpenAI announced Soralast February, there was rampant speculation about what the …