George Clooney, Tom Hanks, and Meryl Streep back new ‘Human Consent Standard’ for AI licensing

A coalition including Clooney, Hanks, and Streep endorsed the Human Consent Standard, a proposed AI licensing framework governing use of likeness, creative work, and characters. The standard introduces opt-in/opt-out consent tiers for training data and synthetic generation. This could reshape data licensing norms and affect how foundation model developers source creative content.