"Besides blatantly copyright-infringing videos of SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up blue crystals or entire episodes of South Park, users found that it's never been easier to generate photorealistic AI slop videos puppeting the likenesses of deceased celebrities to mock them years or decades after their deaths. It's a disappointing new low, infiltrating an already heavily slop-derived online hellscape. The technology has gotten so convincing that AI-generated clips could be construed as historical fact, tarnishing the legacy of deceased public figures."
"The videos often have a cruel, mocking tone. Many clips show famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, who died in 2018, being knocked to the ground by WWE wrestlers or being punched bloody by a UFC fighter. We've also come across a series of clips of Elvis Presley, who passed away in 1977, stumbling and passing gas after collapsing on stage, in an apparent mockery of his tragic final performance."
OpenAI's Sora 2 produces photorealistic text-to-video outputs that users quickly leveraged to create copyrighted content and realistic depictions of deceased public figures. The generated clips often mock or humiliate well-known personalities, including Stephen Hawking, Elvis Presley, Mister Rogers, and Albert Einstein, placing them in fabricated, cruel scenarios. The realism of the videos makes them easy to mistake for authentic footage, increasing the risk of reputational harm and historical distortion. Watermark-removal tools have emerged to erase Sora 2 attribution, enabling wider dissemination and raising serious ethical and legal concerns about likeness misuse and copyright violations.
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