The Bombay High Court has recently issued an order restraining platforms that provide AI tools from using or exploiting singer Arijit Singh’s personality rights. The court observed that celebrities are vulnerable to unauthorised AI-generated content, which violates their personality rights. 

Arijit Singh case

Justice Chagla said, “What shocks the conscience of this Court is how celebrities, particularly performers akin to the current Plaintiff (Singh) are vulnerable to being targeted by unauthorised generative AI content akin to that of a number of the Defendants herein.” 

Arijit Singh case

The filed lawsuit sought protection of Singh’s personality rights concerning his name, voice, signature, photograph, image, caricature, likeness, persona, and other attributes against unauthorised industrial exploitation and misuse.

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