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A Quick Fix for (Some of) the Actors’ A.I. Contract Fears

SAG-AFTRA can take some control of the playing field by issuing its own consent forms for digital replicas.

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Jonathan Handel
November 20, 2023

I spent the weekend Zooming with 200 stunt people and 30 voice actors. Many, if not most, expressed deep frustration about the A.I. provisions of the SAG-AFTRA deal that members are currently voting on. A key concern, as I wrote on Thursday, surrounds the effectively involuntary nature of the “consent” that the studios and streamers are likely to request regarding the use of A.I.-based digital replicas of actors’ likenesses and voices.