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Robin Williams lived in California which has legal protection for celebrity likenesses. But likenesses rights aren’t going to stop the problem, because it’s individual people who are recreating the likenesses en masse.




It is technically correct that Sam Altman and everyone on OpenAI's board are individual people, but I don't see how that would prevent legal action?



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