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Hollywood’s Hypocrisy: Stars Who Insulted Trump Now Beg for His AI Help!

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Hundreds of celebrities, including many liberals who have previously publicly insulted Donald Trump, are now begging for his help in pushing back against big tech proposals on AI. 

On the initial day of his second term, President Trump revealed an extensive $500 billion initiative aimed at bolstering artificial intelligence development within the United States.

The project called ‘Stargate’ will also create an estimated over 100,000 jobs.

OpenAI and Google told Washington next week that they believe American copyright laws allow AI companies to train systems using copyrighted work without permission.

A group of well-known celebrities such as Ben Stiller, Olivia Wilde, Cynthia Erivo, Aubrey Plaza, Paul McCartney, Mark Ruffalo, and Cate Blanchett are urging Trump to reconsider this matter.

If given the chance, OpenAI and Google might excessively utilize America’s creative and intellectual resources, even with their significant earnings and financial reserves.

‘We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,’ the letter says in part. 

‘AI companies are asking to undermine this economic and cultural strength by weakening copyright protections for the films, television series, artworks, writing, music and voices used to train AI models at the core of multibillion-dollar corporate valuations.’ 

Many of the stars who signed the letter have slammed the president in the past.

Among the prominent figures, Stiller labeled a 2017 Trump press conference as “the most disheartening message I’ve ever witnessed a president communicate globally.

‘I despise Donald Trump with all my guts, and his speech last night only confirmed what a pathetic, petulant, dishonest pig he is,’ wrote actress Olivia Wilde that same year. 

Director Ron Howard, who also signed, said in 2020 Trump is ‘a self-serving, dishonest, morally bankrupt ego maniac who doesn’t care about anything or anyone but his fame and bank account.’

Earlier this year, I echoed Mark Ruffalo’s sentiment when he stated that there seems to be no one safeguarding America from potential exploitation by Donald Trump and Elon.

He also calls his performance in the box office bomb Mickey 17 an ‘understated’ imitation of Trump and called his character a ‘petty dictator,’ according to Deadline. 

Other big-name signatories include: Guillermo del Toro, Natasha Lyonne, Paul McCartney, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Cord Jefferson, Bette Midler, Ava Duvernay, Paul Simon, Ángel Manuel Soto, Taika Waititi, Ayo Edebiri, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lily Gladstone, Sam Mendes, Brit Marling, Janelle Monáe, Bryn Mooser, Rian Johnson, Paul Giamatti, Maggie Gylenhall, Alfonso Cuaron, Judd Apatow, Kim Gordon, Chris Rock and Michaela Coel.

In January, Trump hosted SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, Oracle’s Larry Ellison and OpenAI’s Sam Altman in the Roosevelt Room Tuesday afternoon to tout $500 billion of investment to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the U.S. 

The new entity will be called Stargate.

This project plans to establish data centers in Texas, with a focus on increasing electrical power generation to fuel the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Trump stated, “Our goal is to retain it within our nation. You see, China and other nations are rivals.

Ellison touted how AI could be used to improve patient care and cure diseases in the medical field.

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2025-03-18 07:36

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