CANNES - Actor Sean Penn said on Friday (May 19) 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 AI,' Penn said at a press conference...
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." Hollywood studios, battling to make streaming services profitable and dealing with shrinking ad revenues, have rejected that idea, saying they would be open to discussing new technologies once a year, according to the guild.
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