A group supporting the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger is using artificial intelligence to help pressure California Attorney General Rob Bonta to drop his antitrust lawsuit.
\n\nThe group, which uses the neutral-sounding name Neighbors for Strong Communities, uses AI to craft letters that are sent to Bonta’s office, but says that the senders are all real people.
\n\n“Anyone should be able to tell their story, and we use tech to make it easy for them,” said Tanner Kelly, the group’s co-founder. “Nothing we do is AI-generated. It’s AI-assisted. It’s a real person telling a story.”
\n\nThe group is also planning a press conference Thursday outside the Paramount gates to raise alarms about what would happen if the studio leaves California. CEO David Ellison has threatened to leave the state if no deal is reached by Oct. 1, when the company will begin to owe a $7 million-per-day ticking fee to Warner Bros. investors.
\n\nKelly declined to disclose the group’s donors, but denied the allegation that the group is a Paramount “astroturf” campaign — i.e., an artificial grassroots effort funded by a corporation.
\n\n“This is an independent campaign. It’s not being run by Paramount,” he said. “We have not received any direct funding…
Original source: https://variety.com/v/tv/