Breitbart: Hollywood celebrities took a break from calling President Donald Trump a fascist, a con man, mass murderer, and a dictator to sign a letter begging his administration to help them combat artificial intelligence. The letter, signed by more than 400 members of the entertainment industry, asked the administration to refrain from rolling back copyright protections they say would allow AI companies to “exploit” their work.

“We firmly believe that America’s global AI leadership must not come at the expense of our essential creative industries,” hundreds of Hollywood members said in a letter to Trump’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, according to a report by Variety.

To name a few of the smears celebrities have hurled at Trump: Hollywood film director Judd Apatow, known for The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Anchorman, and Talladega Nights, has called President Trump a “mass murderer.” Actor Mark Ruffalo, just this week claimed President Trump is “march[ing] to dictatorship.”

Actor Ben Stiller, who in 2021 reacted to Trump getting banned from social media platforms saying the president’s so-called “divisive rhetoric” has “real-life consequences.” Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt called Trump a “con man.” Bette Midler wished for someone to “shiv” or “stab” Trump. They, along with also signed off on the letter begging the Trump administration to hear their plea.

Moreover, Netflix’s Orange Is the New Black star Natasha Lyonne, who just the other weekend went on a bizarre rant about a looming danger for American minorities and an alleged “death toll” in the U.S. under Trump, also signed the letter pleading with his administration for help.

The letter went on to claim, “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 multi-billion dollar corporate valuations.”

Hollywood’s letter was sent in response to OpenAI and Google recently asserting to the Office of Science and Technology Policy that U.S. copyright law should allow AI companies to train their systems on copyrighted material without first being granted permission.