Posted on 03/19/2025 7:34:56 AM PDT by dennisw
Hollywood celebrities took a break from calling President
“We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” hundreds of Hollywood members said in a letter to Trump’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, according to a report by Variety.
Smears celebrities have hurled at Trump: Hollywood film director Judd Apatow, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Anchorman, and Talladega Nights, has called President Trump a “mass murderer.”
Actor Mark Ruffalo, just this week claimed President Trump is “march[ing] to dictatorship.” Actor Ben Stiller, who in 2021 reacted to Trump getting banned from social media platforms saying the president’s so-called “divisive rhetoric” has “real-life consequences.”
Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt called Trump a “con man.” Bette Midler wished for someone to “shiv” or “stab” Trump. They, along with also signed off on the letter begging the Trump administration to hear their plea.
Moreover, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black star Natasha Lyonne, who just the other weekend went on a bizarre rant about a looming danger for American minorities and an alleged “death toll” in the U.S. under Trump
The letter went on to claim, “AI companies are asking to undermine this economic and cultural strength by weakening copyright protections for the films, television series, artworks, writing, music, and voices used to train AI models at the core of multi-billion dollar corporate valuations.”
Hollywood’s letter was sent in response to OpenAI and Google recently asserting to the Office of Science and Technology Policy that U.S. copyright law should allow AI companies to train their systems on copyrighted material without first being granted permission.
The letter accuses Google and OpenAI of “arguing for a special government exemption so they can freely exploit America’s creative and knowledge industries, despite their substantial revenues and available funds.”
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There is a reason actors in ancient Rome were on the same social level as street prostitutes.
Robert Heinlein:
“[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously—after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and sub-literate every time he opens his mouth.”
When silent movies went away, many stars careers ended.
When color film became the norm, many new careers started and others faded.
Change...it happens.
Buggy whip manufacturers can appreciate...
I would care more about screen writers losing their creative rights if so much political garbage wasnt coming out of Hwood.
Did Roman actors have to dye their hair blonde as well?
It’s been way more than a decade
Too bad guys, best of luck at the dinner theaters!
Well, they can go out and get a real job.
Digital movie cameras killed the movie business model.
AI will make movie actors obsolete!
Can’t wait! The one thing about AI I will celebrate.
We need to go back to the days when actors’ status was lower than a prostitute’s. Once upon a time in the UK, the theater groups traveling from town to town had to camp outside of the town limits.
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