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Beyond the Tilly Norwood Hype, Studio Execs Explain How AI Is Actually Being Used
TheGrill 2025: Execs reject the idea of a synthetic actor and say AI’s arrival in Hollywood is happening in quieter ways
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Meta Suggests Joseph Gordon-Levitt Is Against Its AI Because His Wife Worked for OpenAI
The “Inception” actor called out the company and Mark Zuckerberg for developing AI “designed to prey on kids”
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Disney Hits Character.AI With Cease-and-Desist Over Unauthorized Character Use
The AI platform removed the copyright characters after its “infringing chatbots” were accused of being “harmful and dangerous to children”
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WME Won’t Sign AI Actress Tilly Norwood, Leaders Say: ‘We Represent Humans’
TheGrill 2025: “If she has a future, it won’t be at WME,” co-chairman Richard Weitz tells TheWrap
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SAG-AFTRA Refutes the Idea of ‘AI Actors’ Like Tilly Norwood, Reminds Producers of Contractual Obligations
“It doesn’t solve any ‘problem’ — it creates the problem of using stolen performances to put actors out of work, jeopardizing performer livelihoods and devaluing human artistry,” the Screen Actors Guild notes
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Fox and Tubi on AI: 5 Insights From the Pros Who Regularly Use the New Tech
From the best way to get their teams utilizing AI effectively to what the technology does to the talent pipeline, here are some insights from executives using it now
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Trump Administration Cozies Back Up to Elon Musk With New AI Tech Deal
The xAI government partnership comes after President Donald Trump and Musk sat with each other at Charlie Kirk’s memorial
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Neon Pulls ‘Together’ From Chinese Theaters After Unauthorized Censorship of Gay Wedding Scene
A key moment involving a videotape of a gay wedding was altered with AI by Chinese distributor Hishow
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Google TV Adds Gemini AI To Make Your Television More Conversational
Google wants you treating your TV like you would talk to a smart speaker
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What Happened to Lionsgate’s Splashy Plan to Make AI Movies With Runway? It’s Complicated | Exclusive
The agreement with the AI startup serves as a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of embracing a technology too early
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Top Execs from Fox and Tubi to Share Insights at TheWrap’s AI in Entertainment Panel Livestream
Melody Hildebrandt and Nicole Parlapiano to discuss AI’s impact on content and audiences, Sept. 25
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Disney, NBCU, WBD Sue Chinese AI Firm MiniMax for Copyright Infringement
The three studios say the Shanghai-based company engaged in a “willful and brazen” scheme to bootleg their characters
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Penske Media Sues Google for AI ‘Overview’ News Story Summaries Without Publishers’ Consent
The owner of Variety, Billboard and Rolling Stone says the practice also reduces traffic to its websites
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Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Authors Over Book Piracy Used to Train AI Models
The Amazon-backed tech company will hand out settlements of about $3,000 per book in the largest U.S. copyright case to date