OpenAI shut down its highly anticipated video generation service Sora, after artists invited to test its capabilities staged a protest that allowed anyone to use it.

OpenAI suspended access to the Sora generative-AI video system after artists in an alpha-test program released it publicly in protest.

Now, it looks like some artists leaked access to the model in protest of being used by the company for what they claim is “unpaid R&D and PR.” We received access to Sora with the promise to be early testers,