Ben Still, Paul McCartney and over 400 Hollywood Celebs Openi, Google Over Copyright Issues
Hollywood AI takes a firm step against the proposal to reduce the copyright issue for training. More than 400 celebrities wrote a letter to the White House claiming that AI companies are demanding to destroy the economic and cultural vitality of creative industries.
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There is no doubt that AI is one of the most amazing techniques ever. However, with its increasing speed, surrounding concerns are also increasing. These concerns are not only limited to job fear, but also a threat to creative industries. And now, the danger is also felt by hundreds of celebrities. Recently, over 400 Hollywood celebrities took a firm stand against this AI threat. Celebrities including Ben Still, Paul McCartney, Mark Raffalo and more have written an official letter to the US government against the current AI trends. According to reports, this step comes after Openai and Google proposes to make copyright rules easier.
According to the proposal, reducing these rules will boost America’s AI development competition against nations like China. However, Hollywood’s signature strongly oppose this notion. A letter sent to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy at the end of this week directly challenges the recent proposals of major technical companies, arguing that the US copyright law should allow AI firms to train their system on copyright materials without permission or compensation for rights holders.
The letter stated, “We strongly believe that the US global AI leadership should not come to the cost of our essential creative industries,” the letter states, which included many high-profile actors, directors, writers and musicians, including Kate Blanchet, Guillermo del Toro and Obre Plaza.
The letter states that AI companies are demanding to destroy the economic and cultural vitality of creative industries by advocating low copyright security. They aim to use films, television series, artifacts, writing, music, and voices-to train the AI model that outlines the corporate evaluation of the Buy-Arab-Dollar, without the appropriate authority or compensation.
The letter emphasizes that the entertainment industry supports more than 2.3 million US jobs and contributes $ 229 billion annually, which serves as a “American democratic impact and a foundation for soft power abroad”. It warns that the issue is beyond entertainment, “all the knowledge of America’s knowledge industries,”, “,” including the works of writers, publishers, photographers, scientists, architects, engineers, designers, doctors, software developers and all other professionals. “
But this is not the first time Hollywood AI stands against copyright issues. Last month, more than 1,000 musicians including Kate Bush, Annie Lenox and Deman Alborn titled a silent album Is this what we want? To oppose the proposed changes in Britain’s copyright laws. These changes may allow AI developers to use copyright tasks for training purposes without clear consent from the creators. The silent tracks of the album symbolically represent the possible silenceting of the voices of the artists under the new rules. The profits of the album are directed to help musicians, who support a charity auxiliary artists.
Globally, the creative industry is struggling with the challenges caused by the ability to produce the contents of AI after being trained on existing tasks without being trained on existing tasks. This underlines the need to balance the rights of the ongoing debate of artists and to balance technological progress with the protection of cultural and economic value within the constructive areas.