Artists Urge California Lawmakers to Protect Work, Jobs From AI

Actors and other artists urged California lawmakers on Tuesday to consider various policies to protect them from negative effects of artificial intelligence that make it easier to replicate their work to generate content.

They advocated in a hearing before the California Assembly’s privacy and arts committees for items such as tax incentives to encourage human work over AI and more stringent rules on how tech companies use uploaded art work to train AI.

Lawmakers in the home state of both Silicon Valley and Hollywood have two pending bills that would protect the digital likenesses and voices of dead (AB …