Wed. 11/27 – OpenAI Suspends Sora
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Brian McCullough
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🗓️ 27 November 2024
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Summary
OpenAI has suspended access to Sora after an activist stunt. Anyone can train AI on your Bluesky posts, but that is by design, in a way. Elon is readying a straight ChatGPT competitor. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
Links:
- OpenAI’s Sora video generator appears to have leaked (TechCrunch)
- OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest (Washington Post)
- Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research' (404Media)
- Inside Elon Musk’s Quest to Beat OpenAI at Its Own Game (WSJ)
- Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated (Wired)
Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
- Should You Still Learn to Code in an A.I. World? (NYTimes)
- Bad influence (The Verge)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, November 27th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, OpenAI has suspended access to SORA after an activist stunt. |
| 0:13.6 | Anyone can train AI on your blue sky post, but that is by design in a way. Elon is reading a straight chat GPT competitor, and of course, |
| 0:22.4 | the weekend long-range suggestions. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.8 | Sora, that AI video generating tool is down. Nobody can use it. Why? Because OpenAI has taken it down. Why? |
| 0:41.2 | Apparently, it is in response to a group of artists leaking access to the tool in protest of the |
| 0:46.2 | company's treatment of creative professionals. In other words, a protest has taken it down. |
| 0:51.0 | First, here's the details on the protest from TechCrunch. On Tuesday, |
| 0:55.1 | the group published a project on the AI dev platform hugging face, seemingly connected to OpenAI's |
| 1:00.3 | SORA API, which isn't yet publicly available. Using their authentication tokens, presumably |
| 1:05.1 | from an early access system, the group created a front end that lets users generate videos with |
| 1:10.0 | SORA. Through the group's front end, any user can generate 10-second videos of up to 1080P resolution |
| 1:15.6 | by typing a short text description. When TechCrunch tried, the queue was quite long, |
| 1:20.5 | but several users on X managed to upload samples, most of which bore OpenAI's distinctive visual |
| 1:25.0 | watermark. As of 12.01 p.m. Eastern, the front end was no longer |
| 1:29.0 | working. We'd venture to guess that OpenAI and or Hugging Face revoked access. The group claims that |
| 1:34.2 | after three hours OpenAI shut down SORA's early access temporarily for all artists. |
| 1:39.1 | So why did the group do this? It claims that OpenAI is pressuring Sora's early testers, |
| 1:45.8 | including Red Teamers and Creative Partners, to spin a positive narrative around SORA and failing to fairly compensate |
| 1:51.6 | them for their work. Hundreds of artists provide unpaid labor through bug testing, |
| 1:55.8 | feedback, and experimental work for the SORA Early Access Program for a $150 billion valued company, the group, which calls |
| 2:03.9 | itself SORA PR puppets, wrote in a post attached to the front end. This early access program |
| 2:09.0 | appears to be less about creative expression and critique and more about PR and advertisement. |
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