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

Can we replace the studios execs with AI instead?

Sounds like they want to put actors out of work, while painting it as a good thing. Ai is already at the point where it's being exploited by the wealthy to fuck the poor even more, and it needs to be legislated. Nip this bullshit in the bud.

Isn't this already covered with the Back to the Future 2 lawsuit? They can't use an actors likeness without thier explicit permission. Just because it's "ai" doesn't make it any different, ai is just a SFX.

Aw Hell No! Actors should setup a trust for their image likeness that lives on forever. If Hollywood every uses their likeness the fees go into that trust.

Its always funny how the US are likey some third world country where entrepreneurs/rich people always try the worst ethically possible thing first, asking shamelessly.

In europe, entrepreneurd and corps arent saints but they dont start with the worst shameless proposal possible.

I guess the difference is knowing shame

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher said that “If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble, we are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines.”

Can’t stop smiling now that I know what Fran Drescher has been up to :-)

Do you know why Star wars, Indiana Jones, The breakfast Club ect, are fantastic. The acting. We humans can only be tricked for so long witha a placebo. These films I mentioned, you can tell the hard work that went into them, the love and detail. Also taking someone's life right sounds like digital slavery.

The age of generative AI is upon us, and you can't stop progress. There's no putting that genie back in the bottle.

Generative AI, like your image and speech, are just tools, it's your responsibility to use it for good or bad, and it shouldn't be owned by anyone else.

But since the cat's out of the bag now, so the next best thing is that this power should belong to everyone. There will be bad actors of course, but security through obscurity has rarely ever worked, if more people are exposed to AI generation, then they will understand what it can and can't do, and thus can better look out for themselves.

Besides, StableDiffusion is pretty fun.

No shit? It's basically slavery but not as morally objectionable.

It's still morally objectionable, but not as much.

If you've not seen it there's a film about exactly this... The Congress

less the cost of maintaining the hardware and software - might end up saving the film industry a lot of money in the long run, having to no longer hire or pay actors... or someone could steal/pirate their IP and release their own AIgen movies. or perhaps the public won't pay to see movies with fake actors

That's a great idea. Let's tax the studios accordingly on their increased profits, spend the tax dollars on creating a welfare floor for the acting industry so they can live their best lives acting in whatever they want, and let's legislate around it so it isn't used for malicious purposes like slander, fraud or blackmail. We get movies starring favorite actors in a market still dictated by demand, the studios keep making millions like before and the actors can still make a nice living. Everyone wins. Oh, except the ultra greedy.

Add to that the fact that hollywood is dominated by pedophiles, rapists and psychopaths, and it is obvious to see the laughable corruption in the US government will allow them to take a big fat shit on everything decent once again.

Eat the rich.

I see no problem here.

There may be a group of entertainers i have less sympathy for than actors, but i'd be hard pressed to think who it might be.