Actors Union Pushes for Consent and Compensation as Studios Use AI to Clone Performances

SAG-AFTRA union argues studios should get consent and compensate actors for using their likeness to train AI systems

Actors concerned studios will clone their faces, voices, bodies with AI to create content without payment

SAG-AFTRA says individuals infringing copyright face consequences, so why don't corporations?

Union urging officials to protect human-created work, require consent and payment for AI "digital replicas"

Writers Guild reached agreement with studios to regulate AI use, credit and pay writers for AI script work