The activists in this coalition commonly call it "anti AI." But is it? Does David Zaslav - or any of the entertainment execs who are suing AI companies - want to prevent gen AI models from being used in the production of their products? No way - these guys *love* AI. Zaslav and his fellow movie execs held out against screenwriters demanding control over AI in the writers' room for *148 days*, and locked out their actors for another 118 days over the use of AI to replace actors.
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