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Walters v. OpenAI litigation

The early, much-reported Walters v. OpenAI litigation resulted in no damages or retraction and signaled judicial skepticism that an AI’s probabilistic outputs amount to a human publisher’s defamatory act.

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What legal remedies have public figures used successfully against AI-generated impersonations?

Public figures seeking redress for have most reliably obtained injunctive relief using publicity/privacy law in jurisdictions willing to treat synthetic likenesses as exploitable assets — notably rece...