The stars want AI severely curtailed by law

And probably a good thing Emmanuel Macron made a public mockery of overstated concerns.

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The real goal, for a long time, has been to censor increasingly “realistic” AI-generated videos, audio recordings and still images from the general public, while retaining the ability to introduce AI-generated photos to gullible or complicit juries as evidence and mug shots for line-ups and criminal prosecutions.

AI-generated art is either “surrealist” or “hyperrealist” as a genre of post-modern art.

There is AI-generated pornography, nudity and disrespectful depictions of living or dead individuals, but the same laws have always covered such matters, and ultimately trash is trash to be sorted out as such on its merits or lack thereof, without regard to the manner in which the art happens to be generated or produced.

Whenever there are uptight suburban parents who want Japanese anime or manga or AI or similar art to be banned or prohibited by law even if it does not depict nudity or violence in any way, they themselves or their neighbors are generally being caught in possession of child pornography or child sexual abuse material.

The stars are artists who make a lot of money from their art; so whatever laws they can have passed to limit or restrict the creation of art by the general public, it is to their financial benefit, if movies or other arts are considered economic goods subject to the law of supply and demand, for production and consumption, which is certainly the case, as movies are sold for a lot of money, as most people are willing to pay some money but not too much money or more than they can afford to see the movies or other arts.

The movie houses stand to make more money from AI-generated movies if the general public can be prohibited from using AI methods or software to make competing movies or artwork of their own.