TV producers wanted AI rights of extras forever, says union

https://midwest.social/post/1205550

TV producers wanted AI rights of extras forever, says union - midwest.social

Sadly, I think they will get them, one way or another.

All it will take is a handful of people desperate for money agreeing to be 3d scanned, and maybe a few months of interns saying yes/no to particular faces, and bam, hundreds of extras ready to be used and abused for decades to cover.

Why wouldn’t they just use pure cgi generated faces? Apparently it’s not hard.

I think a combination of 3d animation and ‘ai postprocessing’ is probably the most effective result.

As much as I respect the rights of extras, they are expensive and easier to replace. Disney already has things setup so extras never have to be on set, although you get a lot of backgrounds with ‘people just walking back and forth with no purpose’, but a bit more effort will mean those prefilmed backgrounds wont even require human actors, they barely do already.