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Artists push for US copyright reforms on AI, but tech industry says not so fast

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By VOA | Nov 19, 2023

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**Actor and filmmaker Justine Bateman, right, speaks outside Netflix during a Writers Guild rally on July 13, 2023, in Los Angeles.** [AP Photo]

Country singers, romance novelists, video game artists and voice actors are appealing to the U.S. government for relief as soon as possible from the threat that artificial intelligence poses to their livelihoods.

"Please regulate AI. I'm scared," wrote a podcaster concerned about his voice being replicated by AI in one of thousands of letters recently submitted to the U.S. Copyright Office.

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