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Ben Stiller, Mark Ruffalo and More Than 400 Hollywood Names Urge Trump to Not Let AI Companies ‘Exploit’ Copyrighted Works
More than 400 Hollywood creative leaders urged the Trump White House to not roll back copyright protections at the behest of AI companies.
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. Google, in its submission (at this link), advocated for “balanced copyright rules, such as fair use and text-and-data mining exceptions,” which the company said has been “critical to enabling AI systems to learn from prior knowledge and publicly available data, unlocking scientific and social advances.
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