‘Matrix’ Co-Creator & Hundreds Of Hollywood A-Listers Want To Stop AI Obliterating Copyright Laws; Lilly Wachowski, Paul McCartney, Ava DuVernay, Cate Blanchett, Alfonso Cuaron + More Write White House
deadline.comFormer Beatle Paul McCartney, Ava DuVernay, Taika Waititi, Cate Blanchett, Natasha Lyonne, Alfonso Cuaron, Matrix co-creator Lilly Wachowski, Ben Stiller, Carrie Coon, and Lily Gladstone are among over 400 entertainment industry power players who want the Trump administration to hold the line when it comes to Artificial Intelligence and tech companies’ desire to weaken copyright rules. “We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” the A-listers, rock god, Oscar winners and nominees, blockbuster stars and more told the White House Office of Science and Technology in an open letter that started circulating this weekend. “America’s arts and entertainment industry supports over 2.3M American jobs with over $229Bn in wages annually, while providing the foundation for American democratic influence and soft power abroad,” the 12-page letter adds. “But 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.” As well as Beatle Paul, Poker Face’s Lyonne, Wachowski, the Origin director, Oscar winner Blanchett, and others, Oscar nominee Cynthia Erivo, Mark Ruffalom Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Judd Apatow, and Guillermo del Toro all signed the warning letter.
Along with John Leguizamo, Slave Play‘s Jeremy O. Harris, Rosario Dawsom, Ron Howard, Paul Giamatti, long time anti-AI advocate Justine Bateman, Bette Midler, Ayo Edebiri, Dan Levy, Alfonso Cuaron, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Paul Simon, Damon Lindelof, and Aubrey Plaza were also among the hundreds of
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