Ben Stiller, Paul McCartney and Ron Howard were among the more than 400 Hollywood stars and employees in the industry who signed an open letter this week in which he encouraged President Donald Trump to protect artificial intelligence Copyright rules.
“We are convinced that the global AI leadership of America should not be at the expense of our essential creative industries,” the letter, addressed to the policy of science and technology of Trump and shared by deadline And variety, started.
“America’s Arts and Entertainment Industry Supports over 2.3m American Jobs with over $ 229bN in Wages Annually, While Providing the Foundation for American Democratic Influence and Soft Power Abroad. But Ai Companies Are Weggine Thisture Thisttttttttefthte Thiste Turnte Turntte Turntttttttt The films, Television Series, Artworks, Writing, Music, And Voices Used to Train AI Models at the Core of Multi-Billion-Dollar Corporate Valuations. “
The letter was submitted as part of comments on the American AI action plan of the Trump government.
President Donald Trump was encouraged by Hollywood A-Listers, such as Ben Stiller and Paul McCartney, not to reverse copyright protection for AI. (Chip Somodevilla/Monica Schipper/Jim Dyson)
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OpenAI and Google Recently raised their own submissions to the Office of Science and Technology to ask their respective companies to train their models on copyright protected material.
“The federal government can both learn to secure the freedom of Americans to learn from AI and avoid our AI that leads to the PRC by retaining the ability of American AI models to learn from copyright protected material,” ” The letter from OpenAi is.
Google’s states, “Balanced copyright rules, such as fair use and text-and-data-mining exceptions, have been crucial to enable AI systems to learn from prior knowledge and publicly available data, the unlocking of scientific and social progress. These exceptions make the use of copyrighted material for the rights of the AA-Training with AA-Training with AA-Training with AA-Training with AA-Training with AA-Training with AA-Training with AA-Training Aa-Training Aa-Training Aa-Training Aa Aa-Training With data development with data development with data development with data development with data development with data development with data development with data development with data development with data development.
The letter from Hollywood against: “There is no reason to weaken or eliminate copyright protection that America has helped bloom. Not when AI companies can use our copyright protected material by easily doing what the law requires: negotiating suitable licenses with copyright holders – just like any other industry.
OpenAi, famous for its Chatgpt program, and Google suggested that copyright laws for AI should be detached. (Bloomberg via Getty images)
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“Access to the creative catalog of America of films, writing, video content and music is not a matter of national security. They require no exemption stained by the government from the existing American copyright legislation.
“For almost 250 years, American copyright legislation has the Rights of the Creator balanced with the needs of the public, creating the most vibrant creative economy in the world. We recommend that the American AI action plan maintains existing copyright frameworks to maintain the power of America’s creative and knowledge industry, as well as American cultural influence in abroad.”
While a large group of A-Listers gather against AI, a team of best-caring directors openly embraces the technology.
Joe and Anthony Russo, the brothers behind some of Marvel’s biggest hits, such as “Avengers: Endgame”, recently released their film “The Electric State” on Netflix, in the lead role Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.
Joe Russo, left; Millie Bobby Brown; And Anthony Russo goes to the London photo call for ‘The Electric State’. (Jed Cullen/Dave Benett/Getty images)
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The film tells the story of a world full of powerful robots that dominate and touches the landscape The subject of AI.
Joe told The Sunday Times This week they used AI for some speech modulation in “The Electric State” and that AI user is more common in Hollywood than to admit people.
“There is a lot of fingers and hyperbool because people are afraid,” said Joe. “They don’t understand. But in the end you see that AI used even more importantly.”
He continued: “AI is now in its generative state, where, as we call them, it has hallucinations. You can’t do a mission-critical work with something that hallucinates. That is a reason why self-driving cars have not taken over or why AI operation does not take place worldwide. But in his generative state, AI is best caught in the direction of creativity.”
Joe Russo said that AI is used more than people in Hollywood think and says that the technology is “best suited for creativity”. (Carlos Alvarez/Getty images for Netflix)
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AI, especially generative AI, is a distributable topic in Hollywood since the strikes of writers and actors in 2023.
Both trade unions have closed the industry for almost six months, but at the time it was “necessary”, SAG-AFTRA national executive director and main negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland Fox News Digital told Last year.
“Our members suffered. Other employees in the industry suffered. The industry suffered. It was necessary at that time. I wish it hadn’t been,” said Crabtree-Ireland. “I mean, for me, if I look at the ultimate agreement, I feel that the companies could have made this deal with us on July 12, and could have been avoided this whole thing, and yet they refused. And so that is very frustrating.
“On the other hand, it was essential that we are ahead of the implementation of AI. If we tried to negotiate this after the industry had already started using it in a great way, it would be impossible to put that genius back in the bottle. And so I feel really good that we are successfully anticipating this challenge.”
During this month’s SXSW festival, Sag-Aftra held a panel with the continuous effect of AI on Hollywood.
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“The copyright problem is a very big problem for the studios, and for our people it has been good, we really want to hear from our people in those (employers), because if something is not (protected under) is copyright – if someone can make the director of the Superman, it said in a press release in a press release. The website of the trade union.
“So they are very careful and careful with AI.”
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DGA Associate National Executive Director & Western Executive Director Rebecca Rhine added: “Ultimately, there must be some federal legislation, and I think all trade unions discuss the most fruits about which approaches can bear.”
