Actor Cate Blanchett has launched the Human Consent Registry—a tool designed to protect people's likenesses from unauthorized AI scraping. The registry lets people verify and protect their identities as the AI industry increasingly uses faces and voices to train systems without permission. According to io9, Blanchett's initiative joins a growing push by artists and public figures against unauthorized use of their likenesses in AI-generated content, highlighting a key tension between innovation and consent in generative AI.

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