A company that has to worry. Flickup, a video generation platform used by AI, attracted the anger of LeBron James, who sent him a formal warning letter. The famous basketball player the threat to demand it for allowing the creation of non -consensual videos, reveals the media site 404. This, with Interlink AI, a tool that works thanks to Flickup.
Interlink AI has been used by users to generate videos of LeBron James and other NBA players such as Stephen Curry and Nikola Jokić. If most of them were harmless, others were far from being. One of these videos shows, for example, rapper P.diddy sexually assaults Stephen Curry, while LeBron James remains away and does nothing. In others, the basketball player appears in Homeless or even on his knees.
These videos have accumulated millions of views on Instagram, as is the one that shows LeBron James presented. About to give birth, he asked Stephen Curry to “come quickly” because [leur] The baby is born “, before being charged in an ambulance.
“Avoid additional complications”
Users were able to create these videos, including LeBron James, thanks to the guides detailed in the Discord channel of Interlink AI. But the moderators of the Platform discord announced the decision to eliminate all the “realistic people” of their platform at the end of June, due to the formal notification letter.
Jason Stacks, founder of Flickup, revealed that he received it in a true published on June 27 on Instagram. “I’m screwed,” he said. “In collaboration with Intel, we were promoting a model trained in LeBron James and some other emblematic basketball players. Within 30 minutes after the formal notice, we made the decision to eliminate all the realistic people of the Interlink AI software,” he explained to 404 media.
As moderators indicated, this decision was made to “avoid additional complications.” “This decision preserves the future of the platform and allows us to focus on building an even more ambitious project,” they added.
In addition to this change, three Instagram accounts that have accumulated millions of points of view thanks to these videos of LeBron James have been eliminated from the social network. But the parent company of the platform refused to indicate if it had also received a formal notification letter.
The basketball player is far from being the first victim of these non -consensual videos. At the end of January 2024, Taylor Swift had been staged in a pornographic defake. Scarlett Johansson had also called to prohibit Deepfakes last February, after the publication of a false video that shows his reaction to Kanye West’s anti -Semitic landslides and has gone viral.
Source: BFM TV
