Ben Stiller, Paul McCartney and more than 400 Hollywood celebrities stand out against Operai, Google about the copyright problem

There is no doubt that AI is one of the most surprising technologies so far. However, with their growing rhythm, surrounding concerns are also increasing. These concerns are not only limited to work scares, but also to a threat to creative industries. And now, the threat has also felt hundreds of celebrities. Recently, more than 400 Hollywood celebrities took a firm position against this threat of AI. Celebrities such as Ben Stiller, Paul McCartney, Mark Ruffalo and more have written an official letter to the United States government against current AI. According to the reports, this step occurs after Openai and Google proposed to relieve copyright regulations.

According to the proposal, the ease of these regulations would reinforce the competitiveness of the development of the United States AI against Nations such as China. However, Hollywood signatories firmly oppose this notion. A letter sent this weekend to the White House Science and Technology Policy Office directly challenges the recent proposals of the main technological companies, which argue that the United States copyright law should allow companies to train their systems on content with copyright without requiring permission or compensation for rights holders.

“We firmly believe that the global leadership of the United States should not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” says the letter, which was signed by numerous actors, directors, writers and high profile musicians, including Cate Blanchett, Guillermo del Toro and Aubrey Plaza.

The letter establishes that AI companies seek to erode the economic and cultural vitality of creative industries by advocating the decreases in copyright protections. Its objective is to use films, television series, works of art, writings, music and voices, integrates to train AI models that support multimillionaire corporate assessments, without adequate authorization or compensation.

The letter emphasizes that the entertainment industry supports more than 2.3 million American jobs and contributes annually of $ 229 billion in salaries, serving as “the basis of American democratic influence and soft power abroad.” He warns that the problem extends beyond entertainment, which affects “all the United States knowledge industries”, including the work of “writers, editors, photographers, scientists, architects, engineers, designers, doctors, software developers and all other professionals.”

But this is not the first time that Hollywood faces the copyright problems of AI. Last monthMore than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox and Damon Albarn, launched a silent album entitled Is this what we want? to protest the changes proposed to the copyright laws of the United Kingdom. These changes could allow developers to use copyright work for training purposes without explicit consent of the creators. The silent clues of the album symbolically represent the potential silencing of the voices of the artists under the new regulations. The profits of the album are aimed at helping musicians, a charity organization that supports artists.

Worldwide, creative industries are dealing with the challenges raised by AI’s ability to produce content after receiving training in existing jobs without necessarily compensating the original creators. This ongoing debate underlines the need to balance technological advancement with the protection of artists’ rights and the preservation of cultural and economic value within the creative sectors.