This is so weird. They are mad that they didn't get paid for voluntarily participating in a program that never offered any pay? There are legitimate artist complaints around AI (I don't always agree with them, but they are reasonable complaints to have and are part of very important conversations about how society chooses to interact with AI), but this has got to be the silliest one I have heard so far.

I’m guessing they gave feedback and felt that it was ignored. So rather than let the trial end and let OpenAI say “we even ran it past a bunch of artists, there’s no problem here” - someone decided to flip the table, since they were unheard anyway and felt there were unresolved issues

I suspect their protests stem from those legitimate artist complaints.

Basically that they aren’t being compensated for testing a tool that is ultimately intended to replace them.

I can definitely forgive their complaints when it’s framed that way. But I do agree that the article doesn’t do a particularly good job representing their view point.

Maybe they realised what they were really doing after the fact and changed their minds. They can’t really do anything about it so they are doing what they can.

It a bit silly to think people won’t learn new information and change their minds.

I've been eagerly awaiting access to the tool for quite a while.

I would definitely be willing to pay to try it out and provide feedback in addition. I'm genuinely surprised by this news.

You can read their open letter yourself, whether or not you agree with their logic is up for you to decide.

https://huggingface.co/spaces/PR-Puppets/PR-Puppet-Sora

> This is so weird. They are mad that they didn't get paid for voluntarily participating in a program that never offered any pay?

Companies have been getting ever bolder about abusing volunteer and crowd sourced labor. When the participants are bound by strict NDAs, I think some skepticism is in order.

All we really can tell is that non-neglibigle percentage of the participants in a limited access program were creeped out enough to be willing to blow up their access to call attention to it.

I don't think this story is really even about AI at all, but about labor practices.

I think that everyone at this point just distrusts the board who isn’t paid to say otherwise.

OpenAI is the new high watermark in moral, ethical, social, and intellectual corruption and anyone who works there who has any moral sense is deeply conflicted.

It’s cancer that has cancer. To defeat it would be like discovering a vaccine.

I prefer Pepsi to Coca Cola. I sometimes pose as a Coca Cola drinker to suddenly instigate protests among Coca Cola drinkers.

Some people think I am acting strange but I'd argue they don't see my point.

The less reasonable artist complaints are the ones where they just straight up accuse AI of stealing their work, when that's not how it works at all.

Maybe they agreed first and later realized that if they help ClosedAI murder their future careers and careers of other artists they might as well get paid for it.

Probably blown away by what was possible so they panicked.