Tornado Alley (PROG)

[blackhawks]

You are patting yourself on the back for something that most of us, not losing our 💩 over AI, KNEW would happen.

I have given this board advance notice of the issues with A.I. now some folks are finally listening.

Concerns raised by congress AND by the companies that came to the AI hearings, and by the many companies not in attendance, WERE legitimate and predictable. There were no good reasons NOT to look at regulatory guidelines for AI.

And they were also addressed in the SAG settlement.

https://authorsguild.org/news/sag-aftra-agreement-establishes-important-ai-safeguards/

Recognizing that “we’re fighting for the survival of our profession,” the actors’ union viewed AI as a direct threat to the livelihoods of working performers that would likely replace human performances with other technology. Hollywood studios wanted to scan the image of background performers, pay them for half a day’s work, and then use that collected replica for any purpose (including the training of generative AI systems without the performer’s consent). The union pressed for a “comprehensive set of provisions to grant informed consent and fair compensation when a ‘digital replica’ is made, or a performance is changed using AI.”

The new agreement reached by SAG-AFTRA and AMPTP sought to strike a compromise, and it sets out the acceptable and prohibited uses of AI and generative-AI technology with respect to actors in the film and TV industry. It defined and created rules around two main types of “digital replica” categories: “Employment-Based Digital Replica” and “Independently Created Digital Replica”—both ways in which the performer can be digitally presented in scenes in which they were not actually filmed.