AI videos of dead celebrities are horrifying many of their families [View all]
Ilyasah Shabazz didn’t want to look at the AI-generated videos of her father, Malcolm X. The seemingly realistic clips - made by OpenAI’s new video-maker Sora 2 - show the legendary civil rights activist making crude jokes, wrestling with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and talking about defecating on himself.
Sora’s speed and uncanny realism has helped rocket the app to the top of the download charts, and videos reanimating the dead have been among its most viral clips. Sora-produced videos of Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley and Amy Winehouse have flooded social media platforms, with many viewers saying they struggle to tell whether the videos are real or fake.
Some clips played for laughs, such a video of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” host Fred Rogers writing a rap song with hip-hop artist Tupac Shakur. Others have leaned into darker themes. One video showed police body-camera footage of Whitney Houston looking intoxicated. In some clips, King makes monkey noises during his “I Have a Dream” speech, basketball player Kobe Bryant flies aboard a helicopter mirroring the crash that killed him and his daughter in 2020, and John F. Kennedy makes a joke about the recent killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk.
OpenAI said the text-to-video tool would depict real people only with their consent. But it exempted “historical figures” from these limits during its launch last week, allowing anyone to make fake videos resurrecting public figures, including activists, celebrities and political leaders - and leaving some of their relatives horrified.
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