{"id":424446,"date":"2026-01-23T06:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424446\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T06:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T06:05:18","slug":"scarlett-johansson-cate-blanchett-back-new-anti-ai-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424446\/","title":{"rendered":"Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett Back New Anti-AI Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMore than 700 artists, writers and creators, including Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett<\/a> and Joseph Gordon-Levitt<\/a>, have united behind a new anti-AI campaign<\/a> calling out the tech companies exploiting copyrighted work without permission.<\/p>\n

While lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic are weighing new regulations around AI training data, the campaign argues that \u201cStealing our work is not innovation. It\u2019s not progress. It\u2019s theft \u2013 plain and simple.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tFor Johansson, Blanchett, Gordon-Levitt and hundreds of others, the importance of fighting for authorship is not only meant to protect their own interest but also the U.S. creative sector as a whole, spanning film, television, music, publishing and digital media, which \u201csupports millions of jobs, fuels economic growth and projects cultural power globally,\u201d says the statement. That ecosystem is being threatened, the letter notes, due to AI developers scraping creative work, often without authorization, compensation or transparency.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerica\u2019s creative community is the envy of the world,\u201d the statement reads. \u201cBut rather than respect and protect this valuable asset, some of the biggest tech companies \u2013 many backed by private equity and other funders \u2014 are using American creators\u2019 work to build AI platforms without regard for copyright law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The campaign urges companies to strike content deals or partnerships, like some have already done. <\/p>\n

\u201cA better way exists,\u201d the statement says, arguing that responsible licensing deals can allow AI to advance while still respecting creators\u2019 rights. \u201cIt is possible to have it all. We can have advanced, rapidly developing AI and ensure creators\u2019 rights are respected.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJohansson has been vocal against the dangers of AI before, and has been fighting back against the recreation of her likeness for years. In Feb. 2024, she issued a statement slamming a viral video<\/a> in which an AI version of herself, along with other celebrities, appears to protest Kanye West<\/a>\u2018s antisemitic posts. She also\u00a0took legal action<\/a>\u00a0in November 2023 against an AI app that used her name and likeness in an online advertisement without permission; and\u00a0condemned OpenAI<\/a>\u00a0in May 2024 for using her voice from Spike Jonze\u2019s 2013 movie \u201cHer\u201d as inspiration for a GPT-4o chatbot named Sky.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tBlanchett, meanwhile, has spoken about AI several times, including at Toronto in 2024, during a conversation with TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey. She said, \u201cI think it\u2019s really important to discuss any new technology. I think we should be very cautious with it, because innovation without imagination is a very, very dangerous thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year, Blanchett and Gordon-Levitt were among 400 Hollywood filmmakers, writers, actors and musicians who signed an open letter to the Trump White House\u2019s<\/a> Office of Science and Technology Policy, urging the administration to not roll back copyright protections at the behest of AI companies.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the full statement<\/a>: <\/p>\n

\n\tStealing is not innovation.<\/p>\n

\n\tAmerica\u2019s creative community is the envy of the world and creates jobs, economic growth, and exports.\u00a0
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But rather than respect and protect this valuable asset, some of the biggest tech companies, many backed by private equity and other funders, are using American creators\u2019 work to build AI platforms without authorization or regard for copyright law.<\/p>\n

Artists, writers, and creators of all kinds are banding together with a simple message: Stealing our work is not innovation. It\u2019s not progress. It\u2019s theft \u2013 plain and simple.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A better way exists \u2013 through licensing deals and partnerships, some AI companies have taken the responsible, ethical route to obtaining the content and materials they wish to use.\u00a0It is possible to have it all. We can have advanced, rapidly developing AI and ensure creators\u2019 rights are respected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 700 artists, writers and creators, including Scarlett Johansson, Cate Blanchett and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, have united behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,75097,37740,202160,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-424446","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-cate-blanchett","12":"tag-joseph-gordon-levitt","13":"tag-scarlett-johannson","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}