OpenAI is temporarily blocking users of its Sora 2 AI video app from making content that includes Martin Luther King Jr.'s likeness after some people created what the technology company called "disrespectful depictions" of the civil rights activist.

OpenAI, the company behind generative-AI platform ChatGPT, said late Thursday on social media that it made the decision after Bernice A. King, the youngest child of King, contacted the company on behalf of his estate.

At the estate's request, "OpenAI has paused generations depicting Dr. King as it strengthens guardrails for historical figures," OpenAI and King Estate Inc. said in a joint statement posted on X.

OpenAI did not immediately respond to CBS News' request for comment. The King Center, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving th

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