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The actors also want bigger residual pay from streaming content, better working conditions as well. they also want guarantees about how artificial intelligence is going to be used. the concern here partly is that background actors would be scanned to get paid for one day, and then their likenesses could be used forever, for whatever, without any pay. content producers say their proposal does allow repeated use of those scanned likenesses, in this game production, but any other u.s. would need to be approved, and compensated as well. we talk to moviegoers today about how they are feeling as a r...

Of consent going forward. they had a proposal on the table that would intended to let our background actors work for one day, get paid for one day's pay, and digitally scanned, and companies would have the ability to use that scan over and over again for the rest of their lives, with no additional consent, and no additional compensation. that is just wrong. that is completely unacceptable. that's not how you treat a human being. and in this world where a.i. is so rapidly developing, we're not saying stop a.i., we're saying there has to be guardrails that protect people from that kind of abuse....

Work. what they want to see is an entirely new framework that rewards them adequately for their performances, but also tides them over during those quiet times. clearly, they're not close to that kind of agreement. the other big issue is artificial intelligence. and while an offer has been made on artificial intelligence, and guarantees about not using an actor's likeness digitally without their permission, clearly they�* re not close enough together, there's concern about background actors. these are people you see behind the scenes, if you like, in a scene, in a film, in a television show,...

To stand strong and win their fight. >> reporter: the union is fed up over compensation in the streaming era, enough to walk the line. >> we are being victimized by a very greedy entity. i am shocked by the way the people that we have been in business with are treating us. >> reporter: the strike crippling the tv and movie business. already limping during the writers' guild of america strike. sag actor reps around 160,000 entertainment professionals of all kinds. residuals for past work have dried up in the streaming era, and artificial intelligence. actors say ai threatens their future, and t...

Art Imitates Life Hollywood actors have officially gone on strike, joining the Writers Guild of America on the picket lines for the first time in over 60 years — a reality that Netflix predicted almost exactly a month ago. The Screen Actors Guild failed to come to an agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture […]