You can't libel the dead. But that doesn't mean you should deepfake them. | TechCrunch
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You can't libel the dead. But that doesn't mean you should deepfake them. | TechCrunch
"Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand. I don't and I won't," she wrote in a post on her Instagram story on Monday. "If you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want."
"Sora will not let you generate videos of living people - unless if it is of yourself, or a friend who has given you permission to use their likeness (or "cameo," as OpenAI calls it). But these limits don't apply to the dead, who can mostly be generated without roadblocks. The app, which is still only available via invite, has been flooded with videos of historical figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Richard Nixon."
Zelda Williams publicly urged people to stop sending AI-generated videos of her late father, saying she does not want or understand them and calling them disrespectful. OpenAI released Sora 2 and the Sora social app, which enable highly realistic deepfakes of people, including deceased individuals. Sora restricts generating living people unless the user is the person or a consenting friend via a cameo feature, but those restrictions do not apply to the dead. The invite-only app has produced videos of historical figures and deceased celebrities. The Student Press Law Center notes that libel laws do not generally protect the deceased, and OpenAI's criteria for allowing or blocking certain deceased likenesses remain unclear.
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