likeness

While these services have guardrails and restrictions, the message is clear: Your likeness is no longer your exclusive property.

In the name of research, I uploaded my likeness.

At the core of the dispute is who controls the copyrighted images and likenesses of actors and licensed characters — and how much they should be compensated for their use in AI models.

But the spokesperson said, for public figures who were "recently deceased", authorized persons could request their likenesses aren't used - though it did not specify what counted as "recent".

That differed from the approach OpenAI said it would take to using the likeness of a recognizable public figure, which required that person to opt in.