OpenAI is capitalizing on bad taste with its new text-to-video generator, Sora 2.

The new app allows users to share AI-generated videos on a TikTok-style feed. If you hoped that people would be using it to create great art, prepare to be disappointed — and nowhere is that failure clearer than in videos that resurrect sloppified versions of deceased celebrities.

We’ve seen videos of Michael Jackson rapping, for instance, as well as Tupac Shakur hanging out in North Korea and John F. Kennedy rambling about Black Friday deals.

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 sinc

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