More than 400 well-known Hollywood figures have called on the White House to protect copyright for cinematic and musical works to prevent their use by artificial intelligence.
In a letter sent to the White House last week, these figures, including Ben Stiller, Kate Blanchett, and Cynthia Erivo, called for the protection of cultural giants, including Google and OpenAI, for their accountability. At the same time, these companies are striving to train their artificial intelligence models on a wide range of productions, having signed a letter to warn about the threat to the Hollywood economy from "stripping away guarantees of copyright" and allowing these giants to use "American creative companies".
According to this data, the U.S. film industry brings in over $230 billion annually and employs over 2.3 million people. U.S. President Donald Trump has, since returning to power, reopened the door for artificial intelligence, announcing plans for massive investments in this infrastructure in the U.S. and signed in January an order to eliminate "unnecessary government control" over artificial intelligence.
OpenAI and Google have announced that they want to train their artificial intelligence models with the largest possible amount of protected copyright content, warning that incapacity to do so may give competitors like China and its high-yielding models, such as DeepMind, significant advantages.
The Chinese startup DeepMind created a robot assistant that destroys an entire sector of technology due to the lack of development and management of lesser resources.
Artificial intelligence is a hot topic in Hollywood, where many fear that its use will lead to job losses and degrade production quality. In 2023, two major strikes in Hollywood were triggered, one of which was about the scenarios, and the other by actors, leading to agreements that producers and studios, which seek to cut costs and see the potential of artificial intelligence to achieve this goal, with both sides of the strike being imposed with strict rules for the protection from artificial intelligence.
