SAG-AFTRA Striking Because Companies Won’t Offer Same AI Protections To Voice And Physical Performers, Not Happy About Exemptions
SAG-AFTRA Striking Because Companies Won’t Offer Same AI Protections To Voice And Physical Performers, Not Happy About Exemptions
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As they should.
Also, the voice acting contracts have long lagged behind those of physical actors. Things like residuals, while often laughably small for physical actors, are almost non-existent for voice actors. Video games are a multi-billion dollar industry, and most of that money goes straight to the top.
I hope they get the support they deserve.
I’m so sick of AI. You can’t even casually look at cooking recipes anymore without coming across fake garbage.
AI is so messed up. It could be good, and there are some areas where it has a good function, but anything artistic it just shouldn’t have a place in my opinion. It’s taking jobs and stealing work.
I hope for the sake of the union’s working member’s savings that the strike ends soon. This really should be a no brainer.
With big studios doing mocap these days it makes a ton of sense to protect an actor’s contributions even if their character doesn’t look a thing like them, since that’s every video game character who isn’t played by a recognizable Hollywood actor.
Here we go again. Just pay these people what they deserve, gaming is a hundred-billion dollar industry, it’ll be one still if they pay the salaries people deserve. Companies probably spend more money arguing on and prototyping whether the new rendition of their logo should be maroon red or scarlet red, or whether the vacation for the senior board at the top should be a 6 week cruise to the Bahamas or a 4 week stay at Monte Carlo. Pay your employees.
It’s one thing if it’s being used for free mods, but there is no excuse to use this for profit. I don’t know much about it, but I feel like there needs to be more legislation about this shit. It needs to go even beyond unions.
An example is that child actors basically didn’t have ANY of their money protected before laws were created to keep their parents from taking it ALL. They still don’t have enough protections, but forcing some of it to be kept in a trust is better than nothing.