‘Please regulate AI’: Artists push for US copyright reforms but tech industry says not so fast

Actor and filmmaker Justine Bateman, right, speaks outside Netflix during a Writers Guild rally on July 13, 2023, in Los Angeles. Bateman said she was disturbed that AI models were ‘ingesting 100 years of film’ and TV in a way that could destroy the structure of the film business and replace large portions of its labour pipeline. — AP

Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the US government for relief – as soon as possible – from the threat that artificial intelligence poses to their livelihoods.

“Please regulate AI. I’m scared,” wrote a podcaster concerned about his voice being replicated by AI in one of thousands of letters recently submitted to the US Copyright Office.