What Sora’s Martin Luther King Jr. problem revealed to OpenAI

What looks like a climbdown from the ChatGPT maker is actually a compromise in an era of rapidly evolving norms around intellectual property.

Martin Luther King Jr. did plenty to change the world for the better. And nearly 60 years after his assassination, he’s at the center of a major concession by the world’s leading AI company that puts a battle over intellectual property and the right to control one’s image into the spotlight.