Hundreds of entertainers sign open letter calling for AI copyright protection
Paul McCartney, Guillermo del Toro, Cate Blanchett, Lilly Wachowski, Aubrey Plaza, Damon Lindelof, and many other recognizable names are among the signatories.
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Less than two years after going on strike partly over the encroachment of AI in the entertainment industry, hundreds of actors, writers, directors, musicians, and other creative professionals have signed an open letter urging the White House to push back on AI companies trying to gobble up their copyrighted work. “We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” the letter reads in part, per Deadline. The document goes on to claim that the entertainment industry supports “2.3M American jobs with over $229Bn in wages annually,” but “AI companies are asking to undermine this economic and cultural strength by weakening copyright protections for the films, television series, artworks, writing, music, and voices used to train AI models at the core of multi-billion dollar corporate valuations.”