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Actor
Bollywood superstar of Lagaan and Dangal who says AI “cannot be curbed” and filmmakers must “learn to evolve with it” — even after an election deepfake of him prompted a police complaint over identity theft.
Actor & Investor
Actor turned venture capitalist whose Sound Ventures backed OpenAI and Anthropic. After early access to Sora, he predicted whole movies will be prompted into existence — and that Hollywood’s bar “is going to have to go way up.”
Actress and Rapper
Golden Globe-winning actress and rapper who licensed her unmistakable voice to Meta AI as one of its celebrity assistant voices — the voice Mark Zuckerberg used for the live demo at Meta Connect 2024.
Actor & Filmmaker
Oscar-winning director of Argo and co-founder of studio Artists Equity who argues AI is “a craftsman at best” that cannot write Shakespeare — but will usefully cut filmmaking costs and lower the barrier to entry.
Actress and Writer
Co-creator of “The OA” who is co-writing and co-starring in “Uncanny Valley,” Natasha Lyonne’s hybrid AI film built with Asteria and Moonvalley’s Marey — a generative video model trained only on licensed data.
Voice Actress and CEO of Ethovox
BAFTA-winning voice actress (Firewatch, The Owl House) who, after finding her voice cloned without consent, co-founded Ethovox — an actor-owned AI voice company built on consent, control and compensation.
Actor, Musician & Filmmaker
Emmy-winning creator of Atlanta and Grammy-winning musician as Childish Gambino. His Gilga studio partnered with Google in 2024 to make films with the Veo generative-video model, declaring “everybody’s gonna become a director.”
Actor & Producer
The Rock signed off on a Disney plan to deepfake his face onto his stunt-double cousin for the live-action Moana, raves about ChatGPT’s training plans, and preaches “let’s explore” — while scam ads keep cloning him without asking.
Creator of Tilly Norwood
Dutch comedian, physicist, and producer who created Tilly Norwood, the AI “actress” that ignited Hollywood’s fiercest synthetic-performer firestorm in 2025 — and who defends her as a new art form, not a replacement for humans.
Actor and Activist
Star Trek actor and digital-rights activist who treats AI as a tool answerable to human judgment — he launched his own AI chatbot — while insisting performers must consent before their likeness is cloned.
Star of Star Wars and Indiana Jones who approved and publicly defended ILM’s AI-assisted de-aging of him in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny: “That is my actual face. At that age.”
Rapper and actor
Pioneering gangsta rapper and long-running Law & Order: SVU star who is openly resigned to AI — he says he doesn’t love it, but calls fighting it futile, would let an AI double act his roles forever, and champions AI video as the only affordable way to make music visuals.
Actor & musician
Actor and Tenacious D frontman who, unlike many Hollywood peers, resists the doom framing on AI — hoping it becomes “a tool that all of us can use to make ourselves better.”
Actor & Martial Artist
The martial-arts megastar consented to AI face-swap technology that made him look 27 again in A Legend (2024) — one of Chinese cinema’s most prominent AI experiments — even as he muses that an AI-era industry would never have created “Jackie Chan.”
Actor & Voice of Darth Vader
The iconic voice of Darth Vader and Mufasa who, in 2022, signed over rights for AI firm Respeecher to recreate his Vader voice from archival recordings — ensuring the character would outlive his retirement, and eventually him.
Actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman
Oscar-winning actor and Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman who partnered with Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity to sell “human-verified” concert tickets — fans scan their irises via a World orb to prove they aren’t bots.
Actress
Oscar-winning British acting legend who licensed her voice to Meta as one of the celebrity voices of the Meta AI assistant — a reported multimillion-dollar deal announced at Meta Connect in September 2024.
Tamil cinema legend of Nayakan and Vikram. His film Indian 2 (2024) used digital de-aging to recreate his younger self, and at 69 he flew to the US for a 90-day artificial-intelligence course to apply the technology to future projects.
Comedian & entrepreneur
Comedian and business mogul who paired his small-business grant program with mandatory AI training, telling entrepreneurs the AI “train is coming” and to get on board or get out of the way.
Star of “Frozen,” “Veronica Mars” and “The Good Place” who licensed her voice to Meta AI as a selectable assistant voice in 2024 — years after publicly condemning nonconsensual deepfakes made of her.
Rapper & actor
Pioneering rapper and “NCIS: Los Angeles” star who frames AI as a neutral tool — good or bad depending on how people use it — and rejects fear as the real danger.
Comedian & actor
Comedian-actor who says he would finally make a “White Chicks” sequel if AI could spare him the seven-hour daily prosthetic makeup grind — welcoming the technology as a labor-saving tool.
Oscar-winning star of Dallas Buyers Club and Interstellar, an early ElevenLabs investor who in 2025 used the company’s AI to publish a Spanish-language edition of his newsletter in his own cloned voice.
Two-time Oscar-winning British screen legend who licensed his voice to ElevenLabs’ AI marketplace in 2025, declaring the technology is “not about replacing voices; it’s about amplifying them.”
Russian Doll and Poker Face star who co-founded the “ethical AI” studio Asteria — built on fully licensed training data — and is directing the AI-hybrid feature Uncanny Valley, earning a spot on the TIME100 AI list.
Rapper and actress
Grammy-winning rapper and Oscar-nominated actress who licensed a lifelike AI avatar to Lenovo for small-business ads and urges the entertainment industry “not to be afraid” of AI — even as she admits the same nervousness everyone feels.
Oscar winner and Hello Sunshine founder who has repeatedly urged women to embrace AI — warning that “the jobs women hold are 3x more likely to be automated” — and weathered a fierce backlash from authors and fans.
Actor & Entrepreneur
Deadpool star and Mint Mobile co-owner who, in January 2023, had ChatGPT script a Mint Mobile ad he read on camera — calling the result “mildly terrifying, but compelling.”
Wu-Tang Clan producer & composer
Wu-Tang Clan mastermind and film composer who used AI to prototype a 2024 orchestral work and pitches the technology as a time-saving creative amplifier — “an amazing thing for us.”
The “King of Bollywood.” In 2021 he licensed his AI-generated face and voice for Cadbury’s “Not Just a Cadbury Ad,” letting 2,500+ small Indian stores generate personalized ads with his synthetic avatar — a landmark in consensual likeness AI.
Politician and Former Union Minister
Television soap star turned senior BJP politician and former Union Minister who champions AI as a great democratiser — casting it as a woman’s ideal “saarthi,” or guide, into the digital economy.
Rapper and Entrepreneur
Rap icon, entrepreneur and cultural omnipresence who has licensed his likeness to Meta’s AI characters and used generative tools in his work — even as his wide-eyed “are we in a movie right now” reaction to AI became a viral meme.
Actor and Party Leader
Tamil cinema superstar turned founder of the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam party, whose 2026 election manifesto promises to make Tamil Nadu the “AI capital of India” with a dedicated ministry, an AI university and an AI city.
Star of Top Gun and Batman Forever who lost his speaking voice to throat cancer, then partnered with AI firm Sonantic in 2021 to rebuild it — calling the restored voice “an incredibly special gift.”
Actor and rapper
Oscar-winning actor and Grammy-winning rapper who used generative AI to embellish crowd and fan footage in 2025 concert-promo videos — and, when accused of faking his audience, doubled down with a second AI clip rather than back away.
Star Trek’s original Captain Kirk. At age 90 he became StoryFile’s brand ambassador and first user, recording an AI-powered conversational-video version of himself so future generations could talk with him.
Actor and Former Governor of California
Bodybuilding champion, Terminator star and two-term Republican governor of California who treats AI as the inevitable arrival of a future his most famous films imagined — fascinated and wary in equal measure, taking neither side.
The Oscar winner (Still Alice) who became a headline signatory of the October 2024 Statement on AI Training — declaring that the unlicensed use of creative work “must not be permitted.” Her target is training without consent or payment, a demand for licensing rather than a ban on the technology.
Bollywood superstar and former Miss World who sued in the Delhi High Court over AI misuse of her persona, winning an injunction against deepfake videos, obscene morphed images and an unauthorized chatbot — a landmark Indian personality-rights case.
Actress and Activist
Actress and digital-rights activist who warned Congress about deepfakes as early as 2019, framing non-consensual synthetic media as an assault on truth and democracy.
Legendary Hindi film icon whose 2022 Delhi High Court injunction protecting his name, voice, and image seeded India’s wave of celebrity personality-rights cases against AI-era misuse — and who publicly demanded legal action over deepfakes.
Bollywood star of Mr. India and Slumdog Millionaire who won a landmark 2023 Delhi High Court injunction barring the use of AI, deepfakes, and face-morphing to exploit his name, voice, and likeness.
Singer & Actress
Owner of pop’s most-cloned voice, the Wicked star has heard the AI covers built from it and rendered her verdict on the record: “What are we doing? Why? I hate it. It’s terrifying.”
Voice Actor & Writer
Acclaimed voice actor — Aloy in Horizon, Chloe in Life is Strange — and Emmy-nominated writer who has become a leading voice in the SAG-AFTRA video game strike, demanding consent and compensation before any AI replica of a performer is made.
Actor & Director
Comedy star turned acclaimed director of Severance. One of the top-billed signatories of the March 2025 open letter urging the White House not to let OpenAI and Google train AI on copyrighted work without permission or compensation.
Singer and Actress
The Divine Miss M of Hocus Pocus and Beaches fame, whose landmark 1988 voice-imitation win against Ford is now the cited precedent in AI voice disputes — and who signed the 2024 artists’ letter backing the No AI FRAUD Act.
Comedian
Blistering stand-up comedian who rails against AI as “ultimate slave labor” built by tech elites to wipe out human jobs — a populist, working-class attack on the industry.
The Breaking Bad star whose unauthorized deepfakes on OpenAI’s Sora 2 app triggered a SAG-AFTRA showdown in October 2025 — and forced OpenAI to strengthen its likeness guardrails.
The two-time Oscar winner who told the BBC she is “deeply concerned” about AI — framing it less as a threat to actors than to everyone, since a few seconds of recorded audio can now “totally replace anyone.”
Oscar- and Grammy-winning icon who slammed unauthorized AI voice cloning after hearing an AI “Cher” cover a Madonna song — “it seems like it should be illegal.”
Oscar- and Grammy-winning rapper and actor who joined roughly 300 artists backing the No AI FRAUD Act, a bill to protect voices and likenesses from nonconsensual AI cloning.
The Oppenheimer and A Quiet Place star whose unfiltered, mid-podcast reaction to AI “actress” Tilly Norwood — “Good Lord, we’re screwed” — became the defining soundbite of Hollywood’s revolt against synthetic performers.
Actor & Screenwriter
Two-time Oscar winner — for acting and screenwriting — who calls AI an “intense irritation” and tells the software that keeps offering to rewrite her scripts to f*** off.
Actor & Union Leader
The Nanny star who, as SAG-AFTRA president, led the 118-day 2023 actors’ strike against AI likeness scanning, warning that performers were “all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines.”
Actress & Union Advocate
Titanic and Unforgiven actress who served on SAG-AFTRA’s negotiating committee during the 2023 strike that won AI consent protections, and later signed the Pro-Human AI Declaration.
Actor and Voice Artist
The Emmy-winning voice of Moe, Chief Wiggum and 100-plus Simpsons characters, who warned in a 2025 New York Times essay that AI could replicate his voices without consent — but never the “humanness” behind them.
Actor, Writer & Producer
Creator and star of Insecure who called her Black Mirror episode about an actress licensing her likeness into an AI film “what we’re fighting against, and the worst-case scenario” — adding, of AI recreation, “I’m completely against it.”
Oscar-winning star of Halloween and Everything Everywhere All at Once who publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg in 2025 over a deepfake ad exploiting her likeness — and got it removed within hours.
Musician & actor
Grammy-nominated musician and actor who joined 400-plus creatives in a 2025 letter opposing efforts to let AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission or pay.
The star of Netflix’s Wednesday, who revealed in 2024 that she deleted X after being sent explicit AI-generated images of herself as a minor — “I hate AI… It’s terrifying. It’s corrupt. It’s wrong.”
Voice Actress
Legendary game voice actress — Mass Effect’s Commander Shepard — who calls unauthorized AI voice cloning theft, struck in the 2024 SAG-AFTRA video-game walkout, and demands consent and pay for any digital replica.
Actor and Entrepreneur
The Inception star and HitRecord founder who demanded in a 2023 Washington Post op-ed that anyone whose work trains AI receive mandatory residuals — and has kept up a sustained campaign against Big AI’s lobbying and business practices ever since.
Actor & Comedian
Seinfeld and Veep star — the most Emmy-decorated performer in history — who urged SAG-AFTRA members to authorize the 2023 strike over AI, then skewered ChatGPT onstage after it confused her with Julia Roberts.
The Family Ties star turned writer-director is Hollywood’s most systematic AI opponent: AI adviser to SAG-AFTRA during the 2023 strike, and founder of CREDO23, a certification stamp and film festival for productions made with no generative AI.
Actress and Member of Parliament
National Award-winning Bollywood actress turned BJP Member of Parliament who publicly demanded people stop running AI edits on her images — putting her in outfits she never wore — calling the practice “violating beyond words.”
The Matrix and John Wick star has had a clause banning digital manipulation of his performances in every contract since the early 2000s, and calls deepfakes “scary” — a loss of the performer’s agency.
The Pride & Prejudice and Pirates of the Caribbean star who said in 2023 she may need to copyright her own face against AI misuse, warning that “AI has the potential to be catastrophic” and calling for government regulation.
Actor & comedian
Oscar-nominated writer, comedian, and actor who walked the 2023 SAG-AFTRA picket lines, calling AI protections a defining issue for everyone working in the industry.
Friends star who called Tom Hanks’s de-aged film Here “an endorsement for AI,” warning that studios will simply license and recycle established stars instead of hiring new actors and crews.
Actor & Writer
Matilda and Mrs. Doubtfire child star turned writer who became one of the sharpest voices against AI “actress” Tilly Norwood: “What about the hundreds of living young women whose faces were composited together to make her?”
Marvel’s Hulk and Oscar-nominated star of Spotlight who has become Hollywood’s most persistent AI activist — blasting Newsom’s SB 1047 veto and joining 400+ artists urging the White House to reject AI training on copyrighted work without permission.
The Scream and In the Heights star who led the 2025 backlash against AI-generated “actress” Tilly Norwood, urging actors to drop any talent agency that signed the synthetic performer: “How gross, read the room.”
Wu-Tang Clan rapper & actor
Wu-Tang Clan rapper and actor who has raised alarm over AI voice fakes like Drake’s deepfaked Tupac, warning that the technology cuts deep into intellectual-property rights for artists of his era.
Actor and Narrator
The Oscar-winning actor whose narration voice is among the most recognizable on Earth — and among the most cloned. Freeman has publicly called out unauthorized AI imitations of his voice as a “scam” and set his lawyers loose on them.
The Oscar-winning actor calls AI “a nightmare to me” and “inhumane,” and urges young performers to protect their “instrument” — voice, face, body, imagination — from employment-based digital replicas.
Comedian, actor, and writer who refuses to use AI as a creative partner, insisting that the flaws and effort of human authorship are precisely what make art worth making.
Actor and Deputy CM of Andhra Pradesh
Telugu superstar turned Deputy Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh who went to the Delhi High Court in 2025 to shield his name, face, and voice from AI and deepfake exploitation.
Prolific South Indian and Bollywood character actor and one-time independent Lok Sabha candidate who flagged a viral AI-generated image of himself as fake and said he had filed a complaint against those spreading it.
Pan-India star of Pushpa and Animal whose viral 2023 face-swap deepfake — which she called “extremely scary” — triggered Indian government advisories requiring platforms to take down deepfakes within 36 hours.
Actor and Member of Parliament
Bhojpuri and Hindi film actor turned BJP Member of Parliament who won a 2026 Delhi High Court injunction protecting his personality rights and restraining AI-generated deepfakes that misused his name, face and voice.
The Oscar-winning Iron Man star who vowed to “sue all future executives” who ever create a digital replica of him — even after his death.
Malaysian-born comedian, actor, and senior Daily Show correspondent. In his 2026 Harvard Class Day address he turned a furious, profane riff against generative AI into a rallying cry, telling the graduating class that destroying AI is the mission of their generation.
Comedian & television host
Comedian and former talk-show host who has repeatedly warned about AI deepfakes of herself, calling the fabricated videos “confusing and really dangerous.”
Performers’ Union
The 160,000-member union of screen actors and media performers. Its 118-day 2023 strike was fought largely over AI digital replicas, and it has since struck the video game industry over voice cloning and forced OpenAI to tighten Sora 2’s likeness rules.
The highest-grossing actor in film history (Pulp Fiction, Marvel’s Nick Fury), who has spent years striking AI-friendly language from his contracts — whenever one says “in perpetuity” or “known and unknown,” he crosses it out.
One of the world’s highest-grossing actors — and, after OpenAI shipped a ChatGPT voice she says sounded “eerily similar” to hers in 2024, one of the most prominent voices demanding deepfake and likeness legislation.
Actor & SAG-AFTRA President
The Goonies and Lord of the Rings actor elected SAG-AFTRA president in 2025, who confronted the AI “actress” Tilly Norwood and calls unregulated AI likeness use a direct threat to performers.
Actor and Filmmaker
The two-time Oscar winner (Mystic River, Milk) who called studio resistance to AI limits “a human obscenity” at Cannes 2023 — and told executives who wanted his digital scan that, in fairness, he should get their daughters’ likenesses in return.
The pop star, Only Murders in the Building actress and Rare Beauty founder says the “whole AI thing” terrifies her — a fear made personal when a viral AI cover put her voice on her ex’s song and she could only reply: “Scary.”
Marvel’s Shang-Chi, who started out as a background actor — and in 2025 denounced proposals to replace extras with AI (and the synthetic “actress” Tilly Norwood) as “so antithetical” to how real careers are built.
Bollywood star of Dabangg who sued Character.AI and sixteen other defendants in the Delhi High Court over impersonating chatbots and obscene deepfakes — winning an interim injunction with 36-hour takedown orders in 2026.
Actor and Philanthropist
Actor and pandemic-era philanthropist — himself impersonated in AI deepfake scams — who made his directorial debut, Fateh, to dramatise the dangers of AI-driven cybercrime and deepfake fraud.
Actor & Author
British actor, writer, and broadcaster whose Harry Potter audiobook narration was used to clone his voice without consent in 2023 — making him one of the UK’s leading witnesses against AI exploitation of performers.
Voice Actor
Guinness-record-holding video game voice actor — Spike Spiegel in Cowboy Bebop, Wolverine, countless game roles — who publicly rejected a union-brokered AI voice deal, insisting no one in the voice community had approved handing their livelihoods to AI.
Actress & Activist
Oscar-winning actress and lifelong activist who became one of the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike’s most visible voices on AI, warning that studios could use actors’ images “in perpetuity” without control or consent.
One of animation’s most prolific voices — Bubbles, Timmy Turner, Raven, Harley Quinn, Twilight Sparkle. Turned down a paid AI voice-cloning deal and publicly told fellow actors to “say NO” to teaching AI their voices.
The Oscar-winning arthouse icon who warned at a 2026 Cannes masterclass that formulaic cinema is what gives AI its opening — “we have to watch out” — and that filmmakers must beat it with messy, adventurous work machines cannot make.
America’s most trusted movie star has become a serial target of AI scam ads using his face — and a public advocate for performers’ rights over their digital likenesses, warning that AI performances “can go on and on and on.”
The EGOT-winning actor and co-host of The View who led the on-air backlash against AI “actress” Tilly Norwood — arguing synthetic performers are built from stolen pieces of real ones, yet daring the technology to “bring it on.”
