The biggest strike in Hollywood history ends, reaching an agreement to protect actors "from AI threats"
Thank you, CTOnews.com netizens, for your clue delivery! CTOnews.com, Nov. 9 (Xinhua)-- the screen Actors Guild of America (SAG-AFTRA) officially ended a 118-day strike after reaching an interim agreement with Hollywood studios.
In its announcement, it said it would be awarded a contract "worth more than $1 billion" and would be able to negotiate pay increases and "unprecedented terms of consent and compensation" to protect members "from the threat of AI."
The SAG-AFTRA announced that the strike would officially end at 12:01 local time on Thursday, and the union's negotiating committee voted unanimously to approve the deal.
The deal will be submitted to the SAG-AFTRA National Committee for approval on Friday, followed by approval from members of the association, but at the same time actors are free to return to work.
CTOnews.com found that the 118-day strike marked the end of the longest strike in Hollywood's SAG-AFTRA history, surpassing the 95-day strike in 1980.
Pexels according to a previous report in the Hollywood Reporter, the Federation of Film and Television producers (AMPTP) wants to conduct AI scans of Schedule F actors (union members who earn more than $32000 per episode or more than $60000 per film) and even want to continue to use their portraits after their death without union or their estate permission. Variety said AMPTP had agreed to adjust the content of its proposal for AI, which may have led to a preliminary agreement.
In September, the Writers Association of America (WGA) formally ended the strike after reaching an agreement with its approved AI terms. According to the terms of the new contract, the studio cannot use generated AI to write or rewrite literary material, and any content it produces cannot be regarded as source material. Studios cannot force writers to use generative AI software unless they want to, and they must disclose whether the material given to the writers contains any content generated by AI. Finally, it is explicitly forbidden to "use the writer's material to train AI".
