A group of artists has leaked access to Sora, an OpenAI artificial intelligence model designed for video generation that is currently in private alpha. The artists made Sora’s application programming interface accessible via Hugging Face, Quartz reported today. OpenAI blocked access to the API after about three hours.

Earlier this year OpenAI unveiled Sora, a text-to-video AI model, showing off detailed scenes and complex camera motion from relatively simple prompts. It's been radio silence since then, but the company recently granted artists free early access to the tool for testing.

OpenAI granted early access to Sora, its new generative-AI video tool, to some 300 visual artists and filmmakers to “gain feedback” on the technology. The tech company got it - but not the kind it was hoping for.

A group of artists, volunteering as beta testers for OpenAI’s Sora video AI model, shared the API to access the model on Hugging Face in protest, calling out what they claim are exploitative practices.

Many great AI video generators have emerged since Sora blew people away, but it's hard not to feel like a kid with their nose pressed up against the glass of the toy store, wondering why we can't play with the toys just a little bit.