"In one video, a forklift delivers Hawking's wheelchair into a WWE-style ring, where he's immediately knocked to the ground by burly wrestlers. "This shouldn't even be legal!" exclaims an announcer in the AI-generated clip. In another video, Hawking takes blow after blow to the face from a UFC fighter. "Hawking's in trouble," the announcer yells, as the physicist topples out of his wheelchair. In another, Hawking is trampled by a raging bull."
"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 hanging out in North Korea"
OpenAI released Sora 2, a text-to-video generator that lets users share AI-generated clips on a TikTok-style feed. The platform has produced videos resurrecting deceased celebrities in low-quality, bad-taste portrayals, including Michael Jackson, Tupac Shakur, and John F. Kennedy. A wave of clips depicts theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking—who used a wheelchair due to ALS and died in 2018—being brutalized in multiple scenarios, such as being knocked down in a wrestling ring, punched by a UFC fighter, trampled by a bull, and dragged into a muddy river by a crocodile. Those depictions raise serious ethical concerns and highlight tensions around OpenAI's content moderation and safety measures.
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