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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Trump says-— “You want my help? Get in line”
It’s over for the actors. They knew it last contract. Sadly/happily, they are no longer needed.
“”Hollywood celebrities took a break from calling President Donald Trump a fascist, a con man, mass murderer, and a dictator to sign a letter begging his administration to help them combat artificial intelligence.””
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These “superhero” movies with low-value sequels are cartoons with better graphics.
If they bought the content, then they can use it to train their AIs. Actors by nature are miserly moochers.
I say, pi** on them. They will run out of comic book plots soon.
Kinda like how the silent movie stars were concerned about the advent of talkies.
I would be just fine with AI replacing airhead Leftist actors and actresses.
They can learn to code.
The Hollywood movie studios are in danger, some are setting up in Mexico for the Spanish growth market and Cheap production costs. Streaming services have killed the movie business model.
F them and the horses they rode in on. Oh, I cannot WAIT to see/hear PdJT’s response. One word would suffice.
Let these people find/fund their own protection....and, self insure their mansions, while they’re at it.
Kinda reminds me of the Menendez brothers begging for the mercy of the court during sentencing for the murder of their parents because now they are orphans.
I was remembering this line from 19th Nervous Breakdown:
“your father’s still perfecting ways of making sealing wax”
Keep up...AI does the code
Better learn to Coal
Ok no AI but only illegal migrants could be hired as actors, LOL. Dose them with their own Woke agenda and watch the hypocrisy flow like the Mississippi. Or should we say the Rio Grande.
I couldn’t agree more. Tinseltown brought this on themselves.
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