{"id":297144,"date":"2026-01-22T06:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/297144\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T06:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T06:14:06","slug":"celebrities-back-stealing-isnt-innovation-campaign-against-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/297144\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Back \u201cStealing Isn\u2019t Innovation\u201d Campaign Against AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tCelebrities including Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are backing a campaign blasting tech companies for training generative AI<\/a> tools on copyrighted works without express permission.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe \u201cStealing Isn\u2019t Innovation\u201d campaign from the Human Artistry Campaign, which launches Thursday, protests tech companies\u2019 alleged mass theft of human-created works in order to produce tools that could theoretically compete with real creatives. <\/p>\n

\n\tOn Thursday, the Human Artistry Campaign debuted the awareness campaign and revealed more than 700 supporters behind it, while The New York Times ran an ad for the push.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBig Tech is trying to change the law so they can keep stealing American artistry to build their AI businesses \u2013 without authorization and without paying the people who did the work. That is wrong; it\u2019s un-American, and it\u2019s theft on a grand scale,\u201d one of the campaign\u2019s message proclaims. \u201cThe following creators all agree. Do you? If so, come join us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn addition to Johansson, Blanchett and Gordon-Levitt, industry figures David Lowery, Fran Drescher, Jennifer Hudson, Kristen Bell, Michele Mulroney, Olivia Munn, Sean Astin and Vince Gilligan all signed their names as backing the campaign. Musicians such as Cyndi Lauper, LeAnn Rimes, Martina McBride and Questlove and the groups MGMT, One Republic, R.E.M. and OK Go have also given their support, as did the authors George Saunders, Jodi Picoult, Roxane Gay and Jonathan Franzen.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Human Artistry Campaign is composed of a mix of unions representing creators, artists\u2019 rights groups and trade associations like the Writers Guild of America, the Recording Industry Association of America, The NewsGuild, the NFL Players Association and SAG-AFTRA.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe organization encourages tech companies to license works and also to allow creators to opt out of their projects being subject to generative AI training.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cReal innovation comes from the human motivation to change our lives. It moves opportunity forward while driving economic growth and creating jobs,\u201d Human Artistry Campaign senior advisor Dr. Moiya McTier said in a statement. \u201cBut AI companies are endangering artists\u2019 careers while exploiting their practiced craft, using human art and other creative works without authorization to amass billions in corporate earnings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tMcTier added, \u201cAmerica wins when technology companies and creators collaborate to make the highest quality consumer and enterprise digital products and tools. Solutions like licensing offer a path to a mutually beneficial outcome for all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSo far, only a couple Hollywood companies have dipped their toes into sanctioned licensing for generative AI tools. The biggest to date was Disney, which in December inked a three-year deal<\/a> with OpenAI to bring some of its iconic characters to the video-generation tool Sora.<\/p>\n

\n\tBut the AI company raised eyebrows in Hollywood just a few months earlier, when upon release Sora 2.0 produced characters from titles including Bob\u2019s Burgers, Pok\u00e9mon, Grand Theft Auto and SpongeBob Squarepants in its outputs. At the time, the company\u2019s position was that rights holders could contact the firm to opt out and have their works excluded from the video generator. A few days later, the company walked back<\/a> that position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrities including Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are backing a campaign blasting tech companies for training…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,19,17,6045,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-297144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-labor","15":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115937284142679745","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}