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> In March, SAG-AFTRA, the labour union that represents film and TV actors in the US, issued a statement saying that any contract involving AI and digital dubbi
by UncleEntity 4y ago
> In March, SAG-AFTRA, the labour union that represents film and TV actors in the US, issued a statement saying that any contract involving AI and digital dubbing requires companies to bargain with the union.
Kind of curious who they’re representing here?
I’m not really a fan of unions but understand the historic reasons they exist, to protect the rights of workers. In this instance they just seem to be purely rent seeking as there isn’t a worker to represent.
I suppose the AI companies will have to pay union dues or they can’t work on union gigs?
- crop_rotation 4y ago> Kind of curious who they’re representing here? They are representing the worker would would have done that gig sans AI. They are trying to protect the interests of their members, which is their primary purpose. Whether that is the rent seeking or not is not really relevant to them. I doubt the AI companies can just pay union dues like an actor. The SAG would be more interested in long term strength of their profession (and thus the Union itself) rather than some pennies on Union dues by some companies.
- UncleEntity 4y ago> They are representing the worker would would have done that gig sans AI. So they are representing people who don’t work for these companies and have to bargain with the union to replace them with the robots. I’m sure that will turn out well. Be like every car sold would need to come with a buggy whip because the whipmakers union is strong enough to force the issue.