However, Kidron said the launch underlined the importance of the debate over copyright and AI in the UK, which centres on government proposals to let AI firms use copyrighted work to train their models – unless creative professionals opt out of the process.
OpenAI said use of copyrighted material to build Sora complied with copyright law and the tool was built using a wide range of datasets, including publicly available data.
“Comments made by YouTube last year make clear that if copyrighted material was taken without licence to help train Sora it would have breached their terms of service.
Last year the head of the video platform said it would be a violation of its terms of service if YouTube content had been used to train Sora.
OpenAI announced the UK release as it released examples of Sora’s use by artists from across the UK and mainland Europe, where the tool is also being released on Friday.
