Hollywood’s top labor union for media professionals has alleged that studios want to pay extras around $200 for the rights to use their likenesses forever.
That would allow the studios to recreate those background actors using generative AI as necessary, whenever they want, rather than rehire the workers. The likenesses would be input by scanning the actors’ faces and bodies.
The labor union, The Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), on Thursday opposed the offer tabled by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP).
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