Hollywood writers and actors are on strike

More details have emerged on the demands of the striking actors.

The Screen Actors Guild went on strike after major studios refused to meet demands including a two percent cut in streaming revenue and a 230 percent increase in overseas streaming residuals. Diversity,

on studios’ use of generative AI and digital likenesses of actors, Diversity writes:

The union wants an artist to consent to any use of their performance to train an AI system. AMPTP will accept that AI is used to transform or recreate a likeness of that artist for training. But according to Crabtree-Ireland, AMPTP would give studios carte blanche to create “synthetic” artists or train AI systems for other purposes.

SAG-AFTRA also wants studios to get union consent on personal use of AI, which the studios have refused to give. There is also a dispute regarding background actors.