Dead celebrities are apparently fair game for Sora 2 video manipulation

But deceased public figures obviously can’t consent to Sora 2’s cameo feature or exercise that kind of “end-to-end” control of their own likeness. And OpenAI seems OK with that. “We don’t have a comment to add, but we do allow the generation of historical figures,” an OpenAI spokesperson recently told PCMag.

The countdown to lawsuits begins

The use of digital re-creations of dead celebrities isn’t exactly a new issue—back in the ’90s, we were collectively wrestling with John…