Sora's Controls Don't Block All Deepfakes or Copyright Infringements (cnbc.com)
- Reference: 0179657758
- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/10/05/0122231/soras-controls-dont-block-all-deepfakes-or-copyright-infringements
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/04/sora-openai-video-app.html
"But it turns out the policy doesn't apply to dead celebrities..."
> Unlike lower-quality deepfakes, many of the Sora videos appear disturbingly realistic and accurately mimic the voices and facial expressions of deceased celebrities. Some of the clips even [3]contain licensed music ... [A]ccording to OpenAI, the videos are fair game. "We don't have a comment to add, but we do allow the generation of historical figures," the company tells PCMag.
CNBC reported Saturday that Sora users have also "flooded the platform with artificial intelligence-generated clips [4]of popular brands and animated characters ." They noted Sora generated videos with clearly-copyrighted characters like Ronald McDonald, Simpsons characters, Pikachu, Patrick Star from "SpongeBob SquarePants," and Pikachu. ( [5]as Cracked.com puts it , "Ever wish 'South Park' was two minutes long and not funny?")
OpenAI's " [6]opt-out" policy for copyright holders was unusual, CNBC writes, since "Typically, third parties have to get explicit permission to use someone's work under copyright law"" (as explained by Jason Bloom, partner/chair of the intellectual property litigation practice group at law firm Haynes Boone). "You can't just post a notice to the public saying we're going to use everybody's works, unless you tell us not to," he said. "That's not how copyright works."
> "A lot of the videos that people are going to generate of these cartoon characters are going to infringe copyright," Mark Lemley, a professor at Stanford Law School, said in an interview. "OpenAI is opening itself up to quite a lot of copyright lawsuits by doing this..."
[1] https://mashable.com/article/sora-2-first-impressions
[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/openais-sora-bans-deepfakes-of-public-figures-except-for-dead-celebrities
[3] https://x.com/fAIkout/status/1973603012846502221
[4] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/04/sora-openai-video-app.html
[5] https://www.cracked.com/article_48607_south-park-is-at-the-forefront-of-the-latest-ai-controversy.html
[6] https://slashdot.org/story/25/09/29/1959236/openais-new-sora-video-generator-to-require-copyright-holders-to-opt-out
Voidzilla put out a very good video on this (Score:2)
[1]Someone should go to jail for this [youtube.com]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=illZ-7aA7iQ
This can't be good... (Score:2)
> Unlike lower-quality deepfakes, many of the Sora videos appear disturbingly realistic and accurately mimic the voices and facial expressions of deceased celebrities... we do allow the generation of historical figures...
Given that, we could be stuck with der Trumpenfuhrer for at least a few months after he kicks off - Satan rest his soul. Pretty much everything important he does is scripted by his handlers anyway, and the off-the-reservation shit he posts on Lie Social can easily be duplicated by standard LLMs.
I'm not sure who's scarier as President - Trump, or that odious eyeliner model "Just Dance" Vance.
Re: (Score:2)
The scariest are by far the millions of Americans who pretend to complain and do absolutely nothing about. It's like they have a hand on the stove and they're crying out that it hurts, but can't be bothered to remove their hand and make it stop. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.
Sued into oblivion. (Score:3)
> ‘I hope Nintendo doesn’t sue us’
Nintendo and Disney will absolutely sue you. Hell, they'll be the first in line to sue. I wouldn't be surprise if they have a huge stacks of papers specifically for suing AI companies and just waiting for the moment in which they can sue.
If you are "hoping" your bullshit copyright scheme is going to be ignored by the two companies that are known for suing people regardless of merit, they you are dreaming.