***** It's not just Hollywood -- AI is coming for us all *****
The major film studios have long been known to use every trick in the book to squeeze writers and actors out of due compensation. The terms "above the line" and "below the line" are often synonymous with getting paid properly or getting nearly nothing.
The studios want to use AI to replace actors. There are many nuances, but that's what's going on. And everyone outside the entertainment industry had better wake up to the fact that this isn't just an entertainment industry battle here in L.A., but a battle against abusive AI systems whose deployment could ultimately wreck untold millions of lives.
And to those who argue that this is just technology as always, that everyone complains about tech replacing jobs all through history, I would assert that AI -- especially generative AI -- is of a wholly different magnitude, unlike anything ever seen before, which if uncontrolled will do irreparable, destabilizing damage to society that will make previous tech concerns look like a pimple compared with Mt. Everest.
Reference:
Artificial Intelligence at the Crossroads
https://lauren.vortex.com/2023/07/13/artificial-intelligence-at-the-crossroads
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@lauren Oh yeah. This is why I think the question of copyright pedigree for image generators is ultimately moot; it's fighting the last war.
Assume there's a sea-change and it is decided you can't scrape the web to build an image generator. Okay. Then the twenty largest media and ad companies in the world will *pay* ten thousand artists to feed their beasts with full rights signover. It'll only cost ten thousand, and yes, those ten thousand will be making the machine that shifts work away from all their peers... But tell me you *can't* imagine finding ten thousand artists who would take that deal.
It only takes one generation of scabs to lock-in the machine for quite some time and fundamentally change the way media is created.
