Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever

[ralfy]

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/23794224/sag-aftra-actors-strike-ai-image-rights

In a statement about the strike, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) said that its proposal included “a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses for SAG-AFTRA members.”

When asked about the proposal during the press conference, Crabtree-Ireland said that “This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation. So if you think that’s a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again.”

[Rev. Powell]

The first half of Ari Folman's THE CONGRESS (a loose adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's "The Futurological Congress") is about an actress (Robin Wright) who agrees to sell her AI likeness to a studio to use perpetually.

I don't think this proposal will go anywhere, or that the technology is really there yet. I can see it used strictly for non-speaking extras. Would you take a check for (say) $5000 to let a studio use your AI image as a background in any movie they wanted? A lot of people would.