Dead Celebrities Are Apparently Fair Game for Sora 2 Video Manipulation

People Are Making Sora 2 Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

OpenAI is capitalizing on bad taste with its new text-to-video generator, Sora 2. The new app allows users to share AI-generated videos on a TikTok-style feed. If you hoped that people would be using it to create great art, prepare to be disappointed — and nowhere is that failure clearer than in videos that resurrect sloppified versions of deceased celebrities. We’ve seen videos of Michael Jackson rapping, for instance, as well as Tupac Shakur h…

Dead celebrities are apparently fair game for Sora 2 video manipulation

OpenAI’s likeness protections for living “public figures” don’t apply to “historical figures.”…

Millions view FAKE videos of Stephen Hawking ski jumping and wrestling

The videos of the Oxford graduate and world-famous physicist Nascar racing and WWE wrestling have gone viral on social media.

From Stephen Hawking to Michael Jackson, Sora 2's slop is not even sparing dead celebrities

Credit: Sora 2 via X TL;DR OpenAI’s new Sora 2 text-to-video model has opened a new can of worms, filling social media with more content of questionable quality. We’re seeing an increasing number of videos featuring deceased celebrities, including JFK, Martin Luther King Jr., Stephen Hawking, and more. OpenAI’s policy dictates that celebrities must consent to their personality traits being used for videos, but leaves the question of consent fro…

Mr. Rogers Meets the Mayflower in Sora 2's Hands

Fred Rogers is known for his calmness in the face of adversity. Now with OpenAI’s Sora 2 bringing history’s lost corners to life, the same calm narration takes us across the Atlantic to 1620. Last Saturday a developer named Gorm the Old fired up the tool and imagined a scenario where Mr. Rogers stepped aboard [...]

OpenAI’s Sora 2 Revives Dead Icons, Sparking Ethical AI Debates

In the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, OpenAI’s latest video generation tool, Sora 2, has sparked intense debate by resurrecting deceased icons in ways that blur the lines between homage and exploitation. Videos featuring Bruce Lee as a DJ or Mr. Rogers in reckless stunts have gone viral, highlighting how the technology treats “historical figures” differently from living ones. OpenAI’s policy, as detailed in recent coverage, e…