It’s been a strike-heavy couple of months, and now video game actors may get brought into the mix. No Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefits of Slavery” Per Deadline, SAG-AFTRA’s board has unanimously voted to authorize a strike in case its upcoming bargaining meeting with the games industry falls through. … Read more
“We have to reject the idea that [AI] is just something that will happen to us and we can’t say anything about it,” said SAG-AFTRA national managing director, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland at the start of a panel focusing on AI and entertainment. “I definitely think it could, the question is if we are gonna let it … Read more
Picture: Frazer Harrison (Getty Images) On today’s SAG-AFTRA Strike Noticethe AI suggestions presented by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers was broadcast for the first time, and it was said to include take scans of background actors for use not just in a single project, but all projects, forever. Find Uhura’s Trust in … Read more
In a live press conference today SAG-AFTRA confirmed what we all suspected would happen: the actors walk out. Following negotiations between the actors’ guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers failed to produce an acceptable subsequent contractallowed SAG-AFTRA to let its contract expire Wednesday at midnight. SAG-AFTRA press conference And now the … Read more