Actors' union SAG-AFTRA strike deal to allow AI voice replicas, and video game stars are understandably pissed

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• realcaseyrollins ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Those protections include setting a baseline for minimum terms and conditions with regards to AI voice replicas, along with requiring actors to authorise their voice for use in such projects and negotiate around how and where their digital double is used. The agreement also allows performers to opt out of letting their AI voice be used in the future if they decide against it later on.

  In other words, rather than opposing the replacement of actors by AI as a whole, the deal looks to try and put control of any AI recreations in the hands of actors through formal licensing - wresting back some power from AI tools that harvest thousands of creators’ work without any kind of credit or compensation.

  That all seems very fair to me.