When an AI video defames someone, who gets sued: prompter, provider, or platform?
New_Pension_4485 · reddit · 2026-10-31
A Reddit discussion raises an urgent question: when an AI-generated video defames someone, should the victim sue the person who prompted it, the model provider, or the platform that kept it up?
- Current law is a patchwork: right of publicity, defamation, copyright, and platform safe harbors can each point to different parties
- Prompters often lack resources to compensate; providers hide behind terms of service; platform protections vary by jurisdiction
- The author asks whether liability should depend on who created, distributed, and how each party responded after notification — and whether deep-pocketed platforms/providers should bear more, without chilling legitimate creativity
- Context: tools like PixVerse make AI video creation highly accessible, and unauthorized likeness cases are already emerging
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