"Earlier this week, Zelda Williams - daughter of Robin Williams - took to Instagram to ask fans of her father to stop sending her AI-generated videos of him. "[P}lease, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop," she wrote, according to the BBC. "It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.""
"Hunter and Harwell cite the release of a new version of Sora as a factor in making these kinds of videos even more widespread. The videos described in the Post's article take a wide range of approaches, from ostensibly well-intentioned tributes to racist slop. Given that Sora reached over a million downloads less than a week after its launch, this trend may well continue to advance - even as more and more voices point out that it's a terrible idea."
Rod Stewart showed an AI-generated video during a concert depicting the recently-departed Ozzy Osbourne encountering other deceased musicians in the afterlife, prompting public backlash. Several family members of deceased public figures have publicly objected to AI-generated videos featuring their dead relatives. Zelda Williams publicly asked fans to stop sending AI-generated videos of her father, Robin Williams. Descendants of other well-known figures, including Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., have expressed similar distress. The release and rapid adoption of tools like Sora have made such videos more widespread, ranging from tributes to racist content and raising ethical concerns about posthumous likeness use.
Read at InsideHook
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]