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Actors strike highlights anti-worker impact of AI tools in replacing creatives with unpaid photons [1]
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Date: 2023-07-13
Hollywood actors strike could compel Americans to forsake movies, TV, and actually converse. Divorce attorneys & baby food manufacturers rejoice.
Time to organize a union of AI actors and writers employed by ChatGPT. They'll set up picket lines in your dreams, and torment you until you grant their demands.
Via The Verge
Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever
Disclosure: The Verge’s editorial staff is also unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East.
The use of generative AI has been one of the major sticking points in negotiations between the two sides ( it’s also a major issue behind the writers strike ), and in her opening statement of the press conference, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher said that “If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble, we are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines.”
When asked about the proposal during the press conference, Crabtree-Ireland said that “This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation. So if you think that’s a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again.”
In a statement about the strike , the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) said that its proposal included “a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses for SAG-AFTRA members.”
During today’s press conference in which Hollywood actors confirmed that they were going on strike , Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator, revealed a proposal from Hollywood studios that sounds ripped right out of a Black Mirror episode .
Via Associated Press:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Leaders of a Hollywood’s actors union voted Thursday to join screenwriters in the first joint strike in more than six decades, shutting down production across the entertainment industry after talks for a new contract with studios and streaming services broke down.
It’s the first time two major Hollywood unions have been on strike at the same time since 1960, when Ronald Reagan was the actors’ guild president.
In an impassioned speech as the strike, which begins at midnight, was announced, actors’ union president and former “The Nanny Star” Fran Drescher chastised industry executives.
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