Resurrected for Profit: The Dark Secrets Behind AI’s Ghostly Celebrity Comebacks

Resurrected for Profit: The Dark Secrets Behind AI’s Ghostly Celebrity Comebacks

It’s hard to know exactly when we all signed up for an afterlife in which Robin Williams can be digitally remixed into a TikTok dance video beside George Carlin. Yet, here we are—OpenAI just dropped Sora, a tool that lets anyone bring public figures back from the beyond—whether their families want it or not . The families of Williams and Carlin? Deeply unimpressed . I mean, sure, deepfaking history’s best comedians into new “realistic” scenes was inevitable, but does anyone else get the heebie-jeebies imagining your grandma’s legacy reduced to a Sora-generated shout-out in a mashed-up sitcom universe? Does AI unlock artistic immortality, or just crank out a haunted house of questionable taste? Yeah, even my marketing brain isn’t sure there’s an affiliate link that can justify this one . Curious what the rest of humanity thinks (when they aren’t busy making deceased legends floss across the metaverse)? LEARN MORE.

Saying it desecrates the late entertainers’ legacies, the families of Robin Williams and George Carlin have strongly condemned OpenAI’s new Sora video-generation platform, which allows users to create realistic videos of deceased public figures. What do you think?

“Whatever happened to manually puppeteering a celebrity’s corpse?

Faith Waddell, Systems Analyst


“But I haven’t even made them do sex stuff yet.”

Ray Pacheco, Novelties Engineer


“They should be grateful. I’d give anything to see my grandfather dance with Peter Griffin again.”

Phil Chamblee, Lunch Fetcher

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