Hollywood vs. AI: The Movie
My god, the open letter is full of stars -- especially Cate Blanchett
Few things, it seems, gets Hollywood to rally closer together than AI. Specifically, to rally together against AI. Here's Todd Spangler for Variety:
More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders signed an open letter to the Trump White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, urging the administration to not roll back copyright protections at the behest of AI companies.
The filmmakers, writers, actors, musicians and others — which included Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Erivo, Cate Blanchett, Cord Jefferson, Paul McCartney, Ron Howard and Taika Waititi — were submitting comments for the Trump administration’s U.S. AI Action Plan. The letter specifically was penned in response to recent submissions to the Office of Science and Technology Policy from OpenAI and Google, which asserted that U.S. copyright law allows (or should allow) allow AI companies to train their system on copyrighted works without obtaining permission from (or compensating) rights holders.
Why single out those eight names? Unclear. Editorial choice, one assumes. But actually, a couple paragraphs down we get more: