As AI creators continue to press Hollywood to embrace its disruptive technological charms, top talent agency has gone on the record with a fairly stern rebuke of OpenAI and its potential to lift content without compensating artists. They add to the skepticism of labor guilds and media companies in calling for guard rails to protect content and its creators. This has been in the air since Scarlett Johansson found an uncanny likeness to her voice by the OpenAI assistant Sky, after she declined to be part of that job. More recently, Particle6 Productions founder, the Dutch-British actress Eline Van der Velden, discussed at the Film Finance Forum at Zurich an imminent agency signing of her nonhuman “acting” avatar, Tilly Norwood. It seems highly doubtful any agency of significance would sign A

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