Bungie's Marathon arrives on March 5 How to claim Verizon's $20 outage credit A-List creatives sign up to fight AI, say it enables'theft at a grand scale' Scarlett Johansson, R.E.M., Vince Gilligan and hundreds of others proclaim that'stealing isn't innovation.' Actors, musicians and writers team up to fight AI'theft at a grand scale' (Stealing isn't innovation) Scarlett Johannsson, R.E.M., Vince Gilligan and over 700 other artists are demanding that tech companies stop "stealing" their work in order to train AI models. A new campaign called " Stealing isn't Innovation " demands that AI companies take "the responsible, ethical route" through licensing and partnerships, according to the website. "America's creative community is the envy of the world and creates jobs, economic growth and exports," a statement on the website reads. The group adds that the "illegal intellectual property grab" has resulted in an information ecosystem dominated by "misinformation, deepfakes and a vapid artificial avalanche of low-quality materials ['AI slop'] threatening America's AI superiority and international competitiveness." However, actors, musicians and authors take issue with that idea, particularly when they see their likenesses or work repurposed as slop or worse by large language models (LLMs).