Very exciting to follow the blossoming 21st century American labor movement !!

@curtrice6060

10 ай бұрын

Let’s hope we are watching Democracy growing stronger 🤓🥰🤔😁😌

@tonjamarshall4842

10 ай бұрын

It's about time, joke is seriously over

Nooo go back on strike

Sucks that UAW workers had to wait 15 years to catch up on bailout sacrifices ☹️😡Did C-suite execs sacrifice ANYTHING?

Please Hollywood go out of business

@herrwahnsinn4229

10 ай бұрын

No

Hope this is solid. Now, what about the actors who are threatened with identity theft by AI ?

@Coldbird1337

10 ай бұрын

I hope both parties get safeties that aren't poison pill

@rickjones8005

10 ай бұрын

AI extra character generation of and when it's able to animate a performance is an issue that probably needs new laws in place. Probably a copyright or something like that for your likeness and voice

@stelladonaconfredobutler9459

10 ай бұрын

Laws must be passed but alas with this our current congress not such how long it would take. Have you seen the speech that Stephen Fry did at the tech-base Cognitive X in London? By Cloe Taylor on 9-15-2023 - This is an excerpt: ‘Among those warning about the technology’s potential to cause harm is British actor and author Stephen Fry, who told an audience at the CogX Festival in London on Thursday about his personal experience of having his identity digitally cloned without his permission. “I’m a proud member of [actors’ union SAG-AFTRA], as you know we’ve been on strike for three months now. And one of the burning issues is AI,” he said. A key sticking point for actors on strike is the possibility that studios could use AI to make digitally replicate their image without compensating them fairly for using their likeness. Speaking at a news conference as the strike was announced, union president Fran Drescher said AI “poses an existential threat” to creative industries, and said actors needed protection from having “their identity and talent exploited without consent and pay.” During his speech at CogX Festival on Thursday, Fry played a clip to the audience of an AI system mimicking his voice to narrate a historical documentary. “I said not one word of that-it was a machine. Yes, it shocked me,” he said. “They used my reading of the seven volumes of the Harry Potter books, and from that dataset an AI of my voice was created and it made that new narration.” What you heard was not the result of a mash up, this is from a flexible artificial voice, where the words are modulated to fit the meaning of each sentence,” Fry told the audience at CogX Festival on Thursday. “It could therefore have me read anything from a call to storm parliament to hard porn, all without my knowledge and without my permission. And this, what you just heard, was done without my knowledge. So I heard about this, I sent it to my agents on both sides of the Atlantic, and they went ballistic-they had no idea such a thing was possible.” Fry added that when he discovered his voice was being used in projects without his consent, he saw it as just the beginning of an emerging threat to creative talent, warning his angry agents: “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” “This is audio,” he said he told them. “It won’t be long until full deepfake videos are just as convincing.” 😨🤬all they did was feed his readings of Harry Potter into a computer and created his voice and nuance they used it without his permission and knowledge. Scary stuff.

@MichaelPutsch

10 ай бұрын

sadly laws often don't come until intellectual property theft and indeed identity cloning is/will be common practice@@rickjones8005

Amy - have you seen the speech that Stephen Fry did at the tech-base Cognitive X in London? By Cloe Taylor on 9-15-2023 - This is an excerpt: ‘Among those warning about the technology’s potential to cause harm is British actor and author Stephen Fry, who told an audience at the CogX Festival in London on Thursday about his personal experience of having his identity digitally cloned without his permission. “I’m a proud member of [actors’ union SAG-AFTRA], as you know we’ve been on strike for three months now. And one of the burning issues is AI,” he said. A key sticking point for actors on strike is the possibility that studios could use AI to make digitally replicate their image without compensating them fairly for using their likeness. Speaking at a news conference as the strike was announced, union president Fran Drescher said AI “poses an existential threat” to creative industries, and said actors needed protection from having “their identity and talent exploited without consent and pay.” During his speech at CogX Festival on Thursday, Fry played a clip to the audience of an AI system mimicking his voice to narrate a historical documentary. “I said not one word of that-it was a machine. Yes, it shocked me,” he said. “They used my reading of the seven volumes of the Harry Potter books, and from that dataset an AI of my voice was created and it made that new narration.” What you heard was not the result of a mash up, this is from a flexible artificial voice, where the words are modulated to fit the meaning of each sentence,” Fry told the audience at CogX Festival on Thursday. “It could therefore have me read anything from a call to storm parliament to hard porn, all without my knowledge and without my permission. And this, what you just heard, was done without my knowledge. So I heard about this, I sent it to my agents on both sides of the Atlantic, and they went ballistic-they had no idea such a thing was possible.” Fry added that when he discovered his voice was being used in projects without his consent, he saw it as just the beginning of an emerging threat to creative talent, warning his angry agents: “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” “This is audio,” he said he told them. “It won’t be long until full deepfake videos are just as convincing.” 😨🤬all they did was feed his readings of Harry Potter into a computer and created his voice and nuance they used it without his permission and knowledge. Scary stuff.

@zapatasghost

10 ай бұрын

incredible response. thanks!

@MichaelPutsch

10 ай бұрын

Scary and yet very very real. Other cultures (China, India) are poised to use AI for media products and do it all digitally- No rules are in place and the moral compass of our global economy ignores any profit deterrent

🎉 Stephen Colbert on the way🎉

@michaelshepherd733

10 ай бұрын

God help us

It’s always lovely to see Alex breakdown the latest Union news! 😍

So now we get more rehashed movies and a lack of any actual new stories 👍?

@user-lc9vo1xp8d

10 ай бұрын

I'd be more willing to put the effort into an original, new story, if I'm being payed accordingly.

@Contractor815

10 ай бұрын

Blame the producers for that one; they hold the purse strings and often want things they think are "safe," easy money-makers.

@TaxReligionNow

10 ай бұрын

@Contractor815 Yeah point taken there. It's pretty common in most industries these days of administrators always taking the _path of least resistance_ rather than being innovative or creative.

Let’s goo 🥳 Surely now that the CEOs will have so much more free time in their hands, they’ll have no problem coming up with with a great offer for the actors too right?

No one missed them. not a single person I know has ever brought up the subject.

They don’t have a direct democracy. So membership don’t have a direct say per a member I spoke with. It’s just the elected officials- who in the wga I’d imagine are quite well off compared to other members. Republic status

Post the whole thing! With the audio!

Corporate greed needs to end

7:18pm CST, DN report "Striking Hollywood Writers Reach Tentative Deal with Studios After 146 Days on Picket Line" difficulty loading.

''Hold The Line'' -song by Pete Seeger

@ArleeStarr

10 ай бұрын

"Celebration Time"--Cool and the Gang.

Oh I hope this gets resolved! SAG needs to resolve too!

It seems this AI is a real threat i just heard a AI Version of the late rapper Tupac which was almost on point

Like the Stars would be anybody without the writers.

Thousands of unrepresented Below The Line production workers and IATSE guild members have been financially decimated by having their industry shut down and get nothing. We have paid for whatever the writers get with our savings, credit cards and cashed out retirement. Writers, actors, and the AMPTP have shown the crew on set and in the production office how little they actually count and there is no going back.

@TaxReligionNow

10 ай бұрын

I'm happy you're all getting organized and I wish everyone fair pay for everything they do. Every little job matters especially in production doing some of the grindy labor that takes place behind the scenes. 👍

Writers are on strike? I hadn't noticed anything different. They can all go to Hell.

Capitalism is ALWAYS about worker exploitation. Just as corporations have a fudiciary responsibility to their shareholders, workers have a fudiciary responsibility to their well being. 🤔

@hull5768

10 ай бұрын

so is Bernie Sanders socialism

@MichaelPutsch

10 ай бұрын

Crawl back in your cave and feed on capitalist garbage and other appetizing illusions @@hull5768

@herrwahnsinn4229

10 ай бұрын

@@hull5768 No

@herrwahnsinn4229

10 ай бұрын

This is not a demonization of capitalism, we live very well and plentiful on Hollywood and are well paid and well taken care of.

Dumpy? Unions he cares? Duh not.

Joe Biden joining the strike 😂😂😆. I wonder what he is going to say this time😂.

Until they can figure out how to never precede the word Why with the word Reason, let them keep striking. Hint: Reasons are provided by the answer to the question Why? If you're still not getting it, there is no Reason Who or Reason What or Reason Where or Reason When or Reason How. Reason is always of type Why so that the specification never needs to be made. Nails on a chalkboard! 😩

Will write for food

@idontagree9658

10 ай бұрын

Hopefully will write ways out of a maginalized automated paper bag. Too many professions are far less appreciated and do much more.

Why should writers get a deal when everyone else suffers just as much??

I hope the writers accept the deal. I miss Colbert!

@michaelshepherd733

10 ай бұрын

You are an INDOCTRINATED IGNORAMUS if you watch that nonsense.......wtf?

BOOOO!

Woke Hollywood being away from everyone was fun while it lasted.

@gallectee6032

10 ай бұрын

Pretty sure it's a marketing tactic by now. They know people like you will blow the movie up.

@rickjones8005

10 ай бұрын

They Live, We Sleep.

Alex Press thinks Biden is better than Trump about Unions? Ask the train Union folks about that. The Writers Union better watch its back.

Lol the ai can make a better movie than writers

@mireillelebeau2513

10 ай бұрын

AI made a movie script about writers on strike because of the greed of big corporations...Great movie, so realist!