Actors’ Union Says It Receives ‘Last, Best and Final’ Offer From Studios
Actors’ Union Says It Receives ‘Last, Best and Final’ Offer From Studios
SAG-AFTRA, which has been on strike for 114 days, did not give a timeline for when it would respond.
What the fuck are the studios gonna do, make movies and shows without actors?
Highlights: The negotiating committee of the actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA, told its members on Saturday that it had received a “Last, Best and Final Offer” from the major entertainment studios as a strike that has brought much of Hollywood to a standstill continued for a 114th day.
“We are reviewing it and considering our response within the context of the critical issues addressed in our proposals,” the negotiating committee said. They did not say when they would respond to the offer, which came after an hourlong video conference call that included top studio executives.
Included in the offer was a wage increase that could be the highest in four decades, according to a person familiar with the offer who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations. The studios also offered the actors a new way to determine residuals for streaming programs based on performance metrics, and protections on artificial intelligence, including consent and compensation requirements. The studios also offered an increase to the pension and health funds.
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Notice they are NOT going to provide actual streaming figures. They're going to use ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to determine residuals.
What.The. Fuck.
Think about that...the studios/platforms KNOW the figures, but instead, their best offer to invent an algorithm to invent made up stream counts.
Maybe that article was written poorly, or i'm misunderstanding...? If not, that's absurd.
That’s not what it says. Different part of the sentence.
studios also offered the actors a new way to determine residuals for streaming programs based on performance metrics, and protections on artificial intelligence, including consent and compensation requirements.
Residuals based on performance metrics and protections from having their voices and likenesses used in AI generated content. Two different things.
They're going to use ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE to determine residuals.
What.The. Fuck.
Using a computer to calculate revenue and payroll is standard, and doesn't harm the actors.
The actual AI the union was trying to stop was having their likeness owned by the studios to train deepfake models to digitally insert actors into movies. That would create many problems for actors, but it's not what they are talking about here.
A computer program written by humans with auditable code to calculate payroll is very different from a computer program using AI models that no human on Earth could feasibly comprehend via analysis performing the same task.
AI can and has been "tweaked" in order to fit a specific agenda in the past (see: social media algorithms in general, especially Facebook's social experiments), and it will be used to do the same in the future. The thing about AI is that direct human-caused motives for its actions are hard to prove.
Want a specific rate? Put it in the contract.
Studios can't just say "AI" and get around the agreed terms.
How has this comment not been down voted to oblivion? Homie has the reading comprehension of a gibbon