stopthatgirl7Jul 13, 2023

Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever

“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...

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights

Hollywood studios proposed AI contract that would give them likeness rights ‘for the rest of eternity’

As part of a press conference announcing the SAG-AFTRA strike, it was revealed that the AMPTP was looking for aggressive rights to AI images of actors.

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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.”

Can’t stop smiling now that I know what Fran Drescher has been up to :-)

Jul 14, 2023 at 2:41amWeb
Show threadstraFJul 14, 2023
Thankfully not audio work.
Show threadFlying SquidJul 14, 2023
She is not in any way the first person I would expect to be president of SAG-AFTRA. Maybe she’ll be president one day. It happened before.