"In the weeks after OpenAI released Sora 2, its video generation model, onto the world, King's image has been used in a number of ways that his family have deemed disrespectful to the civil rights campaigner's legacy. In one video, created by Sora, King runs down the steps of the site of his famous "I have a dream" speech, saying he no longer has a dream, he has a nightmare."
""I can't say how shocking this is," says Joanna Bryson, a professor of AI ethics at the Hertie School in Berlin. Bryson, a British citizen since 2007 but born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, says that the videos featuring the civil-rights campaigner were particularly distasteful because of his role in historical events. "I was born in the 1960s so any kind of atrocity against his memory is incredibly distressing," she says. "But also, his family is famously excellent and activist in protecting his legacy.""
OpenAI released Sora 2, a video generation model, and its outputs included multiple AI-generated films using Martin Luther King Jr.'s likeness in disrespectful ways. Examples include an AI King running down the steps of his "I have a dream" speech saying he now has a nightmare, an AI King quoting Tyga's "Rack City," and another making monkey noises while reciting the speech. AI ethicist Joanna Bryson described the videos as shocking and particularly distressing given King's historical role. King's family intervened to protect his legacy, and the King Estate secured a partial climbdown from OpenAI as the company reevaluated how Sora depicts people.
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