The recent protest against OpenAI by its unpaid beta testers has once again demonstrated that the goals of well-funded AI companies are often at odds with the goals of the artists whose time is used in testing or whose work has been used to train the AI in the first place.

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.

A group of artists who were testing OpenAI's Sora text-to-video tool leaked access to it late Tuesday, claiming the artificial intelligence company was engaged in "artist washing" and forcing its testers to only share positive feedback.