CANNES : Actor Sean Penn said on Friday he supported striking Hollywood writers and called studios' rejection of their demand to restrict the use of artificial intelligence in writing scripts a 'human obscenity'.'There are a lot of new concepts that are being tossed about, you know, including the use of A
CANNES : Actor Sean Penn said on Friday he supported striking Hollywood writers and called studios' rejection of their demand to restrict the use of artificial intelligence in writing scripts a"human obscenity".
"And this just strikes me as a kind of human obscenity, for there to be any pushback on that from the producers." "It's difficult ... for so many people, so many writers and so many people in the industry, to not be able to work during this time," added Penn."And I guess it's gonna soul-search itself and see which side toughs it out."
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