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OpenAI introduced that it has “paused” customers’ potential to generate movies of Martin Luther King Jr. on its synthetic intelligence video instrument Sora, following backlash over “disrespectful depictions.”
“While there are strong free speech interests in depicting historical figures, OpenAI believes public figures and their families should ultimately have control over how their likeness is used,” the corporate stated in a Thursday statement posted on X. “Authorized representatives or estate owners can request that their likeness not be used in Sora cameos.”
The change comes just a few weeks after the launch of Sora 2, which lets customers make realistic-looking AI-generated movies utilizing actual and historic individuals. Critics cost that it’s contributing to an era of misinformation and “AI slop” that’s blurring the traces between what’s actual and what’s pretend.
The product has additionally generated on-line dialogue about ethics round the usage of this expertise. Some creators have been utilizing King’s likeness for inappropriate functions. Users just lately recreated the late actor Robin Williams in AI movies, prompting his daughter Zelda to name them “disturbing.”
OpenAI stated it “thanks Dr. Bernice A. King for reaching out on behalf of King, Inc., and John Hope Bryant and the AI Ethics Council for creating space for conversations like this.”
The King Center didn’t instantly reply to NCS’s request for remark.