People Are Making Sora 2 (AI) Videos of Stephen Hawking Being Horribly Brutalized

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Futurism article from yesterday that I didn't see till tonight. I posted an LBN thread of OpenAI starting to put some guardrails on Sora 2 videos because of copyright worries - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143543743 - but I don't know if psychopathic videos like the ones described here are still allowed.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-sora-stephen-hawking-brutalized

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The ethics of puppeteering the likeness of a dead person are dicey at best. But for a glimpse of the real rock bottom of the nascent Sora 2 content ecosystem, consider a wave of videos that show famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking — who used a wheelchair since the late 1960s due to the motor neuron disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which ultimately led to his death in 2018 — being brutalized in a range of horrifying ways.

In one video, a forklift delivers Hawking’s wheelchair into a WWE-style ring, where he’s immediately knocked to the ground by burly wrestlers.

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In another, Hawking is trampled by a raging bull. In another, he’s attacked by a crocodile that drags him into a muddy river. In yet another, he drops into a skateboarding halfpipe and wipes out badly, smoke pouring from his wheelchair.

-snipping a couple of paragraphs about OpenAI saying Sora will block depictions of public figures but would "allow the generation of historical figures"-

If the company is opting to allow videos of dead public figures, is anything fair game, regardless how violent or grotesque? If the company is allowing footage of a man in a wheelchair being beaten and bludgeoned, it’s hard to imagine what isn’t allowed.

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