OpenAI suspended access to its unreleased but highly anticipated video generation tool Sora on Tuesday after a small group of artists leaked access to the tool in protest of the company’s treatment of creative professionals who test the tool with minimal compensation, acting as “PR puppets.” OpenAI had granted hundreds of artists free, early access to Sora, to test the new artificial intelligence video generator. But about 20 artists given access to the tool argued the company had taken advantage of their unpaid labor and were using them to burnish the company’s image. To draw attention to OpenAI’s practices, the group posted an online tool allowing the public to use Sora to generate videos. “Hundreds of artists provide unpaid labor through bug testing, feedback and experimental work for the program for a $150B valued company,” the group wrote in a fiery statement posted on Hugging Face, an open source repository for artificial intelligence projects.

Full report : OpenAI pauses its AI video generator after a group of artists created a webpage allowing anyone to make AI videos using Sora.