AI Face-Swapping App Class Action Likely to Proceed

An AI face-swapping app will likely have to face a lawsuit from a reality TV contestant who said altered clips of him on a show violate California’s right of publicity law, following a hearing on a motion to dismiss Friday.

Kyland Young, a finalist on CBS’s “Big Brother,” filed the class action in the US District Court for the Central District of California in April against NeoCortext Inc.'s “Reface” app, which lets users swap faces with athletes, musicians, and other famous people with deepfake technology.

The app has several animated images of Young in scenes from “Big Brother,” ...