Family members of dead celebrities including Robin Willians and George Carlin are calling foul over AI-generated videos of their loved ones appearing on OpenAI’s new app, Sora.

OpenAI’s new video generation app is just a few weeks old, but it rapidly rocketed to the top of the U.S. Apple App Store within days of its release. And perhaps as rapidly, experts and creators raised copyright concerns around Sora, as the app appeared to let users create content of well-known cartoon characters and deepfakes of public figures.

OpenAI has since curbed those kinds of videos, but The Washington Post and other outlets have reported that family members of dead celebrities don’t think enough is being done to protect their loved ones’ likeness. When OpenAI launched Sora, it said videos of “historical f

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