This happened today
https://gizmodo.com/sag-aftra-ai-actors ... 1850638409
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/13/2379 ... age-rights
The unions damn well have the right to bring this up in negotiations, because if a studio can get the legal right to use their likenesses for "eternity", and use generative AI bots to write content, it WILL BE abused. Because the AMPTP members are notorious for abuses, going back 100+ years. It is why there are entertainment unions in the first place. Greedy bastards brought unions in on themselves. This time there is literal blood in the water as both actor's and writer's unions are on strike against the whole industry, for the first time since 1960. But of course, since Wikipedia openly skews leftwards and pro-union, its content is far more favorable to the unions than to the producers or studios.
Both of these articles are being editwarred heavily this week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Writ ... ica_strike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_SAG-AFTRA_strike
Don't tell me WP:NOTNEWS and all that shit--within hours of the claim being made in a public press conference, it was stuck into the WP articles. The Verge article was used as the "reliable source".
On July 13, with no agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP, the SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee voted unanimously to recommend a strike to the union's national board.[27] The national board held a vote officially approving the strike.[28] SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher announced the strike would begin at midnight on July 14;[29] the cast of Oppenheimer left the film's London premiere ahead of the announcement to walk out.[30] Joined by chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland,[31] Drescher stated that the strike is a reluctant last resort[32] and described negotiations as "moving around furniture on the Titanic."[33] In the press conference, Crabtree-Ireland alleged that the AMPTP attempted to include a proposal that allowed studios to use actors's faces for a one-time fee, having the exclusive rights to their likeness, drawing comparisons to the Black Mirror episode "Joan Is Awful."[34]
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1165241994
And oh, just on the side: back in May someone stuck a long, long list of celebrity actors in the WGA strike article. Useless information AND not directly related to the WGA. After two months of
argument on the talkpage, it was removed today. Tell us again that Wikipedia is not a celebrity tattle thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... 1165200963