By Anuj Chopra, Anna Malpas and Rachel Blundy, AFP

Photo: TikTok / Supplied

In a parallel reality, Queen Elizabeth II gushes over cheese puffs, a gun-toting Saddam Hussein struts into a wrestling ring, and Pope John Paul II attempts skateboarding.

Hyper-realistic AI videos of dead celebrities - created with apps such as OpenAI's easy-to-use Sora - have rapidly spread online, prompting debate over the control of deceased people's likenesses.

OpenAI's app, launched in September and widely dubbed as a deepfake machine, has unleashed a flood of videos of historical figures including

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