OpenAI's likeness protections for living "public figures" don't apply to "historical figures."
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DJ Bruce Lee and Jackass Mr. Rogers—dead celebrities become puppets in Sora 2 videos
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I can't watch that video without noting that "Stephen Hawking" has as many syllables as "Leroy Jenkins," so this needs more AI to fix the audio.I'll have you know that the Stephen Hawking video is 100% real. My uncle's cousin's father sent it to all his email contacts with the header "RE:RE:RE:RE:RE So inspiring!", so it's gotta be true.
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Didn't he had to do that stunt because he lost a bet with some creepy rich dude he was hanging out with back then?I'll have you know that the Stephen Hawking video is 100% real. My uncle's cousin's father sent it to all his email contacts with the header "RE:RE:RE:RE:RE So inspiring!
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That actually happened to me.
One day, a relative of my younger brother's wife used an AI video generator to create a fake video of my dad (who died at the age of 70) meeting my months-old baby nephew to give him a hug.
It was painful. It not only looked very fake (my nephew floating in the sky, my dad noticing him and reaching over and smiling, the two hugging for 0.3 seconds and then separating as my nephew floats to the ground), but is of something that never happened and can't happen.
My mom thought it was cute. It might be one of those "it's the thought that counts" things for her, but it just felt so wrong to me.
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And?
None of that will be or ever be used to 'help' anyone.
Look at the world around you. Humans never even tried.
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Paying other people to entertain you is highly sustainable. They’ll use that money to pay someone else making a living and so on.
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My wife showed me something similar. Her sister sent her a AI-edited picture of a Polaroid photograph of their grandma at a much younger age (I guess the best picture they have of her) taking a group photo with the sister's two kids. One kid was only a baby when she died (at a much older age than the photo) and the other was born after she died. It was so upsetting I didn't really have words.
I would like to think the kids seeing that picture years down the line with no context would mess with their brain at the cognitive dissonance it would bring, but maybe by that point this would be so commonplace they'd complain like seeing how bad a VHS looked compared to movies nowadays.
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It is the incredibly high use of resources for little gain that is the issue. Like using the NASA crawler that delivers rockets for a daily commute at 38ft per gallon.
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Apple has at least tried to not use AI when it doesn't actually solve a problem, and their stock has been absolutely roasted for it.
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“Move fast and break things” should be a lot more fucking terrifying to people than it is. Remember how we all sniffed at Elizabeth Holmes taking it just a bit too far when applied to a medtech context? Well, folks have chuckled along for long enough with how we need to break a few eggs to make an omelette that we’re now left with the general public’s inclination to just allow these billionaire sociopaths to experiment on society writ large as a bunch of expendable guinea pigs. Anyone else watch that Outer Worlds episode of Secret Level? How long until Soylent green really is people?
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Please let these deep-pocketed IP owners sue this AI slop into oblivion. Make this garbage too expensive to exist.
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I can imagine people being that thick. Unfortunately, with her complaining about it, I can imagine a lot more people doing it. It’s not just CEOs that suck, there are a lot of people who do insensitive things at one time or another. Sigh - time to go examine my mirror a for a bit. At least it won’t contain any insensitive AI fakes.
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Don't corporations own the likeness of dead celebrities? I'm shocked that this is fair game.
I suspect its a way to demonstrate value and user adoption. Since it takes a long time to settle through court OpenAI will be able to use this feature for years to come before its forced to stop.
Once sufficient grifting money is given to Donald the supreme court will decree that all of this IP theft is perfectly legal, just like in the Meta case for stealing all those books. Only the tech oligarchy has IP rights, everyone else can get stomped.
Why should I as an individual pay for anything when such rules do not apply to AI firms? The social contract has been shattered in America in regards to art benefiting the artists that create.
All so a handful of tech oligarchs can become deca-trillionairs while the rest of humanity wonders where their next glass of clean water is coming from.
I suspect its a way to demonstrate value and user adoption. Since it takes a long time to settle through court OpenAI will be able to use this feature for years to come before its forced to stop.
Once sufficient grifting money is given to Donald the supreme court will decree that all of this IP theft is perfectly legal, just like in the Meta case for stealing all those books. Only the tech oligarchy has IP rights, everyone else can get stomped.
Why should I as an individual pay for anything when such rules do not apply to AI firms? The social contract has been shattered in America in regards to art benefiting the artists that create.
All so a handful of tech oligarchs can become deca-trillionairs while the rest of humanity wonders where their next glass of clean water is coming from.
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Considering one AI data center uses more resources than the state of New Hampshire the cost for that 30 seconds of slop is a very high cost to the earth and to those nearby having their electric rates increase up to 250%.
(Extremetech if you want to know where the figures came from)
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Yeah and? Coal mines and scam call centers employ a lot of people too. A harmful industry is not redeemed by having wage slaves.
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Necromancers, really. The deceased subjects are what they turn into ghouls, which is a fate none of these people deserve!
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And there are already "Sora Watermark Remover" sites popping up all over the place.
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ColdWetDog
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Too late. Trump already has pushed out a fake video 'showing' Charles Schumer telling other democrats that nobody should vote for them. And others showing Democrats saying racist things. Like most things Trump does it's pretty bad, but good enough to fool Maggots nine times out of ten.
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ColdWetDog
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Except when the AI bubble is the major thing holding the economy up, the eventual lithobraking is going to hurt.
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Don't worry. I'm going to make a startup that will hire people to use AI to create a business presentation outlining my revolutionary concept of an AI that will put the watermarks back onto AI content when they're re-uploaded.
So, Sam if you read this, get please get intouch.
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I would normally agree with you, but I am sure our current administration will fight this tooth and nail in the court system which will just about normalize this violation by the time it is settled.
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Can't say we weren't warned. Two decades of the market basing itself on vaporware and leveraging stocks to make money out of nothing will have it's consequences.
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Someone should find photos of Sam Altman's parents and make video ads of them selling Hormel's delicious pork shoulder and ham, or holding satanic rituals, or ordering things from Amazon on Prime Day. Monsters!
Or have them sing "Happy Birthday" to Elon Musk, tell him he's the son they've always wanted, and that his xAI is the bestest.
Or have them sing "Happy Birthday" to Elon Musk, tell him he's the son they've always wanted, and that his xAI is the bestest.
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Since moral compasses don’t improve revenue or increase market share, no.
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It's been apparent
There's a level at which the concept of intellectual property becomes insupportable. Given the ability to instantly distribute a property to millions, it becomes like trying to put gravity in a safe. It's a fundamental failure to understand what the thing you're attempting to control is. The stats on pirated entertainment content are still rising like a rocket despite the all but resources that have been devoted to stopping piracy for a quarter of a century. The only thing that reduced it was when providers made it easy and cheap to pay for content. The moment they got greedy and dirty, the world went back to stealing their product faster than ever.
It's been 60 years since Stewart Brand (allegedly) said "Information wants to be free." We're still in denial. Of course it's been 96 since René Magritte told us "This is not a pipe," and we remain convinced that an image can represent something other than itself. But I digress…
Well (no offense), no… It's not. It's a ridiculous waste of resources. How long do you suppose it will take for some fractious, clever nerd to devise a way to such a marker, and distribute that ability across the planet? A month? A week? Ten minutes?
There's a level at which the concept of intellectual property becomes insupportable. Given the ability to instantly distribute a property to millions, it becomes like trying to put gravity in a safe. It's a fundamental failure to understand what the thing you're attempting to control is. The stats on pirated entertainment content are still rising like a rocket despite the all but resources that have been devoted to stopping piracy for a quarter of a century. The only thing that reduced it was when providers made it easy and cheap to pay for content. The moment they got greedy and dirty, the world went back to stealing their product faster than ever.
It's been 60 years since Stewart Brand (allegedly) said "Information wants to be free." We're still in denial. Of course it's been 96 since René Magritte told us "This is not a pipe," and we remain convinced that an image can represent something other than itself. But I digress…
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So celebs and politicians are off limits but the rest of us getting doxxed and ruined by AI deep fakes…is okay?
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If you want to make a billion other than by inheriting or from winning the lottery, it certainly seems to be the case.
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Parasitic carrion eaters never stop. Every one of them should be forced to view a video showing them doing something highly illegal, then they might* get the point.
*Likely not, since they have no discernable social conscience, sociopaths are like that.
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A mile is not deep enough. Since the Earth is about 8,000 miles in diameter, the maximum depth should be about 4,000 miles.
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