honestly allowing any concessions on AI is a loss for the actors

welp

man wtf is going on over there

this has to be the result of the well-known and established actors leading these union meetings viewing voice acting as "supplementary" to their main work and, bc of that, seeing no problem in licensing out their voice for "passive income"

Bruh wtf?

its looking like professional creative pursuits will be largely claimed by "ai" well before the decade is over. those that can stop it are too naive or too greedy to pump the brakes

It's so over

the way to go tbh

yeah man let's relinquish part of the acting art form to the algorithm because it not only saves a bunch of execs money and makes me, the already established actor, a little bit more but also creates a new group of middlemen execs to get paid

If I'm reading it correctly, it opens up the option for union members to work with Replica in the future under an equitable contract that mandates licensing agreements (so VOs get paid per use, presumably) and with opt-out permissions baked in after the fact.

From one of the replies.

I do agree it’s a slippery slope tho. Keeping my eyes on this one

Another strike looming

i just can't see those supposedly equitable contracts matching a traditional hourly rate + residuals when a middleman, Replica, in the mix. and now that a client knows that the receivable will be genAI, do you really think they are paying full rate?

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