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🎧 Do you think The Sora PR Puppets were right to expose Sora before it was publicly ready?

OpenAI’s highly anticipated text-to-video model—Sora—which was first introduced in February, has been leaked by a group of Sora beta testers (who are reportedly called the “Sora PR Puppets”) in protest over “art washing” and being used for “unpaid R&D and PR.”

🔑 Key Points:

The testers published an AI video model on Hugging Face (a public repository of AI models) which was connected to the (private) Sora API, which enabled users to generate 10-second videos via text prompts.

After three hours, access was revoked (either by OpenAI or Hugging Face), but not before several users published their video clips—which bore OpenAI’s distinctive visual watermark—onto social platform, X.

Users who wrangled access said it was a faster, “turbo variant” with more style controls, but had fewer customization options, which comes Sora has reportedly suffered technical setbacks, pushing back the launch.

🤔 Why you should care: The Sora PR Puppets published a note, with the leaked Sora model, saying that Sora’s early access program is just an excuse for OpenAI to exploit artists, demanding unpaid testing and positive-only feedback (allegedly Sora’s early testers—which include red teamers and creative partners—have been pressured to spin a positive narrative around Sora) and believe that OpenAI’s content approval process is biased: “every output needs to be approved by the OpenAI team before sharing,” which is misleading.

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🌮 TACOS DISH: WACKY AI NEWS CORNER

1️⃣ Phone scams are on the rise, but an AI granny is on the job.

☎️ Phone scams are on the rise, but an AI granny is on the job. Daisy, who looks and chats like your grandmother, is a conversational AI-powered chatbot built by British phone company O2 to fight fraud. Daisy tricks phone scammers into thinking they’re speaking with a real human, and rambles on to keep fraudsters occupied and away from real people. While one AI granny doesn’t have enough knitting stories to stop phone fraud, it’s worth a shot: Global consumers lost $1T+ to online scams last year, and Virgin Media O2 blocked $315m+ in fraudulent transactions — the equivalent of one every two minutes.

2️⃣ Amazon enters AI chatbot race (finally)

Amazon is stepping up its AI game with a new generative AI model, code-named Olympus, that can process images and videos alongside text.

Olympus can analyze and understand scenes in videos and images, allowing users to search for specific moments—like a winning basketball shot—using simple text prompts.

The model helps Amazon move away from relying heavily on Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, which has been integrated into AWS.

Amazon is expected to officially unveil Olympus as early as next week during its annual AWS re:Invent customer conference.

This move positions Amazon to compete more directly with AI leaders like Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI.

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🎙️ Ever Wished Your Voice Could Type Faster Than Your Fingers?

Ever caught yourself talking to your phone, laptop, or coffee maker? (No judgment here!) Well, turns out talking to our devices isn't just for showing off to your confused grandparents anymore. Speech-to-text has quietly become the secret weapon of productivity ninjas everywhere.

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• Why podcasters are falling in love with Descript's magic editing powers

• The free tool that's making students' lives easier (and professors slightly suspicious)

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