Michael Jackson leans over a KFC table and says, “your chicken’s looking nice, pal,” before swiping the box.

Marilyn Monroe is resurrected as a TSA agent going through traveler’s bags, while the late wheelchair-bound physicist Stephen Hawking is depicted suffering all manner of indignities from dirt biking to being cast as a WWE wrestler.

Clearly this is not how the estates of these people want them portrayed, but new AI video capabilities don’t wait around for permissions and social media is awash with thousands of similar new videos daily. 14

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This has been fueled by the wide release of OpenAI’s Sora 2 app on Oct. 1 along with other video software such as Midjourney and Google Gemini.

Swathes of living actors, actresses, illustrators and animators rushed to their lawyers

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