After artists protested, selective users’ access to Sora’s artificial intelligence was suspended

OpenAI recently blocked the access of users who were selectively able to use Sora’s text-to-video artificial intelligence. This action takes place after recent protests against the said service.

At the beginning of this year, we saw the official unveiling of Sora artificial intelligence by OpenAI, which, as a text-to-video conversion model, can create detailed scenes. Very high to reproduce the complex movements of the camera. The company recently enabled some users, including digital artists, to access the Sora service for free; But about 20 of them leaked information about the new tool in protest of the recent action.

Some artists who have had the chance to use Sora’s artificial intelligence have announced that OpenAI used them for free testing and found flaws in their new model and made false promises. Also, they believe that they were used as tools and media to make the public believe that tools like Sora can serve art and be useful for artists. It is worth noting that the use of Sora has been associated with limitations, the most important of which is the need to verify the videos before receiving the output by the manufacturer; A strange action that was probably intended to prevent the release of low-quality and defective outputs.

An OpenAI spokesperson mentioned in the official statement that hundreds of artists have contributed to the development of the text-to-video service in the test version, and their comments have been used to add important features and increase security. It has also been said that the use of Sora’s facilities was completely voluntary and there was no requirement to send feedback from the users of the initial version. In this regard, one of the artists involved in the project has mentioned that recent controversial statements do not represent the direction of all users of the initial version of Sora and has declared his support for OpenAI.

Will Sora’s AI face legal issues before release?

Although Sora’s artificial intelligence is not yet publicly released; But many controversies have been created around the data used to practice it. “Mira Moratti”, one of the former directors of OpenAI, announced a while ago that he is not sure whether YouTube videos were used to train Sora or not. Also, YouTube’s manager officially announced that using the company’s content to train artificial intelligence models violates YouTube’s policies and terms of use.