{"id":236405,"date":"2026-05-03T02:03:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-oscars-bans-generative-ai-in-acting-and-writing-categories"},"modified":"2026-05-03T02:03:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T07:03:11","slug":"the-oscars-bans-generative-ai-in-acting-and-writing-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/the-oscars-bans-generative-ai-in-acting-and-writing-categories","title":{"rendered":"The Oscars bans generative AI in acting and writing categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-oscars-bans-generative-ai-in-acting-and-writing-categories.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u2014probably better known to the world as the Oscars folks\u2014have drawn a firm line in the sand against the use of generative AI, changing its eligibility rules to exclude AI-generated performances and scripts.<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/sites\/oscars\/files\/2026-05\/99th_oscars_complete_rules.pdf?VersionId=84FilOcTNI7wpFAxl56.8xesZyP5.UWl\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/sites\/oscars\/files\/2026-05\/99th_oscars_complete_rules.pdf?VersionId=84FilOcTNI7wpFAxl56.8xesZyP5.UWl\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">new rules<\/a>, via <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/industry-news\/awards\/oscars-rule-changes-2026-ai-actors\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/industry-news\/awards\/oscars-rule-changes-2026-ai-actors\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"inline-link\">The Wrap<\/a>, state that in acting categories, only roles \u201cdemonstrably performed by humans with their consent\u201d will be considered eligible for consideration, while in the writing categories, only \u201chuman-authored\u201d screenplays will be eligible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences\u2014probably better known to the world as the Oscars folks\u2014have drawn a firm line in the sand against the use of generative AI, changing its eligibility rules to exclude AI-generated performances and scripts. The new rules, via The Wrap, state that in acting categories, only roles \u201cdemonstrably performed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}