In a news conference, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher declared that AI 'poses an existential threat to creative professions.”
Justine Bateman, a member of all three unions, graduated with a computer science degree from UCLA and has been advising SAG on AI for negotiations. She said that it was fortuitous timing that those union contracts, which are for three-year periods, happened to expire soon after generative AI companies made their products widely available.
Other entertainers have tried alternate ways to counter AI. Earlier this week, comedian Sarah Silverman and two authorsagainst two of the most prominent generative AI companies: OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, and Facebook parent company, Meta. Alex Winter, a filmmaker who has directed several documentaries about the dangers of emerging technologies and is also a member of all three guilds, said the unions should take an extreme position on AI rights, given the unknowns about the technology.
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