Everyone who questions me is an enemy of the revolution! Calm down there Robespierre, some people arent thrilled with the deal you came to, maybe try to see where theyre coming from instead of just immediately dismissing them
What do we think the ratification vote split could be with the potential AI and digital replica loopholes in the contract? I’m going with 75/25. There will be sizable resistance to the deal but NOT ENOUGH to thwart the process, methinks.
Imma just be honest here. The Nanny got you the best deal you were ever going to get. Things are only going to get worse from here; in three years’ time, prepare yourselves to go through this entire ordeal all over again.
AI is inevitable. The studios *will* push for it to be implemented at every available opportunity. Strikes like these, where the workers are forced to fight tooth and nail for their dignity, are the way things are going to be from now on.
> In particular, the deal allows AI models to “train” on actors’ performances to create synthetic, or “Frankenstein,” characters. Actors will be allowed to prevent that only if the final output includes the actors’ recognizable facial features.
> The union sought to give itself a veto over the use of AI to create synthetic performances. But in the end, the union got only “notice” for such use.
> In her tweets, [Justine] Bateman argued that allowing synthetic performers is “anathema” to a union contract.
> “This is akin to SAG giving a thumbs-up for studios/streamers using non-union actors,” she wrote. “I find it baffling that a union representing human actors would give approval of those same actors being replaced by an AI Object.”
Count me in with the “contrarians”. Actors definitely lost out big time in the fine print of this deal.
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Everyone who questions me is an enemy of the revolution! Calm down there Robespierre, some people arent thrilled with the deal you came to, maybe try to see where theyre coming from instead of just immediately dismissing them
What do we think the ratification vote split could be with the potential AI and digital replica loopholes in the contract? I’m going with 75/25. There will be sizable resistance to the deal but NOT ENOUGH to thwart the process, methinks.
Imma just be honest here. The Nanny got you the best deal you were ever going to get. Things are only going to get worse from here; in three years’ time, prepare yourselves to go through this entire ordeal all over again.
AI is inevitable. The studios *will* push for it to be implemented at every available opportunity. Strikes like these, where the workers are forced to fight tooth and nail for their dignity, are the way things are going to be from now on.
> In particular, the deal allows AI models to “train” on actors’ performances to create synthetic, or “Frankenstein,” characters. Actors will be allowed to prevent that only if the final output includes the actors’ recognizable facial features.
> The union sought to give itself a veto over the use of AI to create synthetic performances. But in the end, the union got only “notice” for such use.
> In her tweets, [Justine] Bateman argued that allowing synthetic performers is “anathema” to a union contract.
> “This is akin to SAG giving a thumbs-up for studios/streamers using non-union actors,” she wrote. “I find it baffling that a union representing human actors would give approval of those same actors being replaced by an AI Object.”
Count me in with the “contrarians”. Actors definitely lost out big time in the fine print of this deal.