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OpenAI Halts Sora Generations Of Martin Luther King After ‘Disrespectful Depictions’

OpenAI halted AI video generation of Dr. King on Sora after offensive depictions, following a request from his estate to protect his likeness, the company said.

  • OpenAI halted its AI app Sora from creating deepfake videos portraying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. after his estate requested it, citing "disrespectful" content had been generated about the civil rights campaigner.
  • Sora has become popular in the US for making hyper-realistic AI-generated videos, leading to people sharing clips of deceased celebrities and historical figures in outlandish and often offensive scenarios.
  • OpenAI said while it believed there were "strong free speech interests in depicting historical figures", they and their families should have control over their likenesses.
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OpenAI's new flagship application, the company that has developed ChatGPT conversational agent, Sora proposes to use your image or that of a celebrity to make videos generated by artificial intelligence. But the image of these personalities – dead or alive – is often diverted for the worst.

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OpenAI suspended the creation of videos of the U.S. civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. through its artificial intelligence tool Sora 2, after his family complained of disrespectful representations.The heirs of the murdered civil rights leader and OpenAI announced in a joint statement Thursday night that the company would pause generations representing King while "strengthening security measures for historical figures."

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