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Hollywood Rattled by Trump's Big Assault on DEI


Published on 2025-02-14 12:44:19 - MSN
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  • Hollywood's efforts to promote diversity on screen and behind it are under siege one month into the Trump administration, with Disney publicly scaling back its DEI efforts and Comcast facing an FCC investigation over its policies seeking to promote inclusion.

The article from MSN discusses the ongoing debate about the use of AI in Hollywood, particularly focusing on the concerns raised by the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) during their strikes. The unions are worried about AI's potential to replace human creatives, with fears centered around AI being used to generate scripts, alter performances, or even create digital likenesses of actors without ongoing compensation. The article highlights how AI could be used to write or rewrite scripts, potentially diminishing the role of human writers, and how studios might employ AI to manipulate or replace actors' performances, thereby affecting residuals and employment. There's also mention of the ethical and legal implications, like the unauthorized use of an actor's image or voice. The piece underscores the tension between technological advancement and the preservation of human creativity and labor rights in the entertainment industry, with both unions pushing for regulations to ensure AI complements rather than supplants human work.

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