[rg111]

What about the SAG-AFTRA? Have they reached any agreement regarding AI?

When AI became plausible and produced full body deepfakes, I concluded that it was only a matter of time to use AI to extend and emulate real actors.

The sensible agreement should have been that an actor, via an agency, or a software stack, will control their full body AI avatar. And they will license them to studios for a movie or a commercial ad. They will charge maybe 20%-90% of the fees that they receive.

BUT, it blew my mind that studios were audacious enough to float the idea or propose that actors will be paid a small hourly wage or minimum wage for small actors for scanning their bodies, and after that the studios get to keep and use the digital avatar for perpetuity for free.

Whoa!

I was shocked to learned that. There was, as expected, dispute.

What happened to that part?

[thehodge]

That's next, they were only dealing with one union at once.