Credit, consent and pay in Hollywood’s AI debate
Yahoo Finance reports that former DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg is calling for AI tools built with artists, with credit, consent and pay included from the start.
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Yahoo Finance describes an essay on X in which Jeffrey Katzenberg argues that Hollywood’s resistance to AI echoes earlier creative-industry battles over technology. He points to composer John Philip Sousa’s fight against the phonograph and musicians who lost jobs when sound came to film—cases where, in his telling, technology prevailed and terms were negotiated afterward. Katzenberg wants artists involved in building AI tools, with credit, consent and pay established upfront.
