AI Marilyn Monroe Chatbot Sparks Consent Debate
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Soul Machines unveiled "Digital Marilyn", an AI chatbot designed to look and talk like Marilyn Monroe, in partnership with Authentic Brands Group which owns rights to Monroe's likeness.
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The Marilyn bot is powered by GPT 3.5 and is capable of natural conversations that last about 20 minutes.
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Soul Machines touts its digital celebrities as a way for famous people to engage with fans without limits, though the other bots are of living celebrities who consented.
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Marilyn Monroe is unable to consent as she passed away, raising ethical issues around exploiting likenesses of dead celebrities.
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The Monroe bot was introduced on International Women's Day, though some see this as ironic given the lack of consent and agency on the part of the actual woman being depicted.