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> Among the striking actors’ demands are protections against their scanned likeness being manipulated by AI without adequate compensation for the actors. Ok, g

> Among the striking actors’ demands are protections against their scanned likeness being manipulated by AI without adequate compensation for the actors. Ok, get a good lawyer and write that into any future contracts. Obviously this will only work for household name actors, but for everyone else it really doesn’t matter. We can already generate faces that are unique [1]. All that remains is deep fake tech getting good enough to take an image like this and apply it to a 1-3 minute scene in a film. Think of any scene that has many people in it - a bar, a classroom, etc. The audience’s attention is is usually only focused on the main characters, but you still need a lot of other people in the scene to make it feel authentic. This tech will replace those people. [1]: https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en https://this-person-does-not-exist.com/en

thebradbain 3y ago
They do have protections against that in the contract, which would apply to all SAG members — the use case you brought up is exactly what Fran Drescher, the president of SAG, brought up of something they are hoping to prevent. The studios don’t want to sign such a contract. And so the actors are withholding their work until they do, among other conditions. Crossing the picket line, no matter how big an actor you are, will have you expelled from SAG, and when studios eventually sign whatever deal they do with SAG, any non-SAG actor will be barred from working with studios, based on the exclusivity contract that’s been in every deal since 1960. One side will win. Based on history, it will be SAG.