The Reese Witherspoon AI backlash, explained
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Reese Witherspoon is “curious” about AI. Also, Palantir posted its CEO’s manifesto. Last week, Reese Witherspoon went viral (in the wrong way) for declaring “the AI revolution has begun” and suggesting that women should learn about the technology. “The jobs women hold are 3x more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using AI at a rate 25% lower than men on average,” the “Morning Show” star wrote on Instagram. “We don’t want to be left behind.” The post attracted a fair amount of backlash, with people pointing out the problems associated with data centers and intellectual property, and accusing Witherspoon of being paid by AI companies to promote generative tools. “It’s so, so important that women are involved in AI because it will be the future of filmmaking,” Witherspoon told Glamour in September. “And you can be sad and lament it all you want, but the change is here. It will never be a lack of creativity and ingenuity and actual physical manual building of things. It might
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