Justine Bateman is NOT happy with the AI provisions negotiated by SAG-AFTRA. The agreement will put actors out of work [View all]

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The exact details of the AI provisions won't be released till Monday. But this is a strong indicator that the protections against AI that actors wanted aren't as strong as I'd thought from the first comments on it.

Article from The Wrap here - https://www.thewrap.com/justine-bateman-sag-aftra-deal-generative-ai-artificial-intelligence/

Justine Bateman is deeply disappointed with the tentative agreement in place between SAG-AFTRA and the major studios, which ended the strike. While speaking with MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, she explained that members of the union should approve the deal after voting begins Tuesday only “if they don’t want to work anymore.”

Bateman added, “If they want to be replaced by synthetic objects that are made by generative AI, why not?”

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“I mean, soon they’ll have customized films for you based on your particular viewing history,” she added. “And they won’t bother to copyright them because it’ll be like Kleenex. They’ll make a million of them an hour, it won’t matter to them.”

Bateman added, “The train track is split. One train track is going, ‘OK, we’re going to participate in this sort of negotiation with the cannibals and we’re going to talk about just how you’re going to be cutting my foot off, and are you going to grill it or boil it, and what kind of sauce are you going to put on it?’”

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Much more at the link, and in this video of Justine Bateman talking to Ali Velshi: