OpenAI stops ‘disrespectful’ Martin Luther King Jr. deepfakes

OpenAI has been discontinued Artificial intelligence (AI) app Sora creates deepfake videos depicting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at the request of his estate.

The company admitted that the video creator created “disrespectful” content about the civil rights activist.

Sora has It went viral in the United States Due to its ability to create hyper-realistic videos, which has led to people sharing fake scenes of dead celebrities and historical figures in bizarre and often offensive scenarios.

OpenAI said it would pause images of Dr. King “because they reinforce guardrails for historical figures” — but is continuing to allow people to make clips of other notable individuals.

This approach has proven controversial, as videos featuring figures such as President John Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth II, and Professor Stephen Hawking have been widely shared online.

Led by Zelda Williams, daughter of Robin Williams, To ask people to stop sending her father AI-generated videosThe famous American comedian who died in 2014.

Later, Bernice A. King, daughter of the late Dr. King, made a similar public appeal, Writing online: “I agree regarding my father. Please stop.”

Among the AI-generated videos depicting the civil rights activist, some were editing his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in different ways, with Washington Post report One of the clips showed him making racist noises.

Meanwhile, others shared on the Sora app and across social media showed figures resembling Dr. King and fellow civil rights activist Malcolm X fighting.

Olivia Gamblin, an ethicist and author on artificial intelligence, told the BBC that limiting further use of Dr King’s image was a “good step forward”.

But she said the company should have taken action from the start, rather than taking a “trial and error” approach to rolling out such technology.

She said the ability to create deepfake images of deceased historical figures not only indicates a “lack of respect” towards them, but also poses additional risks to people’s understanding of real and fake content.

“It plays closely with trying to rewrite aspects of history,” she said.

The rise of fake videos, which are videos that have been edited using artificial intelligence tools or other technology to show someone speaking or acting in a way they did not, has raised concerns that they could be used to spread misinformation, discrimination or abuse.

OpenAI said on Friday that it believes there is a “strong interest in freedom of expression in depictions of historical figures,” but that they and their families should have control over their likeness.

“Authorized representatives or property owners can request that their images not be used in Sora’s photos,” she said.

So-called “inscriptions” on the platform allow live people to consent to their faces or likenesses being used in more AI videos on Sora.

OpenAI told the BBC in a statement in early October that it had built in “multiple layers of protection to prevent misuse.”

It said it was conducting “direct dialogue with public figures and content owners to collect feedback on the controls they want” with the aim of reflecting this in subsequent changes.