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[olivermoss]

It is amazing to me that AMPTP still haven't caved. (Fun fact, the memory trick I used to make sure I get the acronym right is by remembering that is ends in TP, toilet paper) It's Stranger Things Day today and the freaking Duffers are 'working' on the show by making shot lists using Funko Pops as stand ins for the actors. Buy all this new merch for a show we can't get back to making!

This is just silly.

Apparently, AI scans of actors are a major sticking point.

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[muccamukk]

I really thought they'd go down when the writers got their deal, but they really love losing money I guess!?

[olivermoss]

Especially since non-AMPTP projects like from A24 can go head. It's just them that can't. The fall TV season is mostly toast. This situation is why I checked on Jessie Gender and Kane Pixels. No work on the Kane Pixels project, though

[muccamukk]

I just read up on what the studios are asking for in regards to AI and WHAT FRESH DYSTOPIAN HELLSCAPE IS THIS!?

[olivermoss]

Yeah, it's bad. It's terrible to the actors, but it's also the sort of weird, tech trend chasing bs that isn't good long term

[mistressofmuses]

I HATE that they haven't fucking caved yet. I hate even more that it sounds like it's the AI protections that they're really digging their heels in on.

Oh, that's a great way to remember the acronym! AMPlified Toilet Paper, indeed!

[olivermoss]

AMPliefied Toilet Paper is even better!

Yeah, this is gross, predatory and would also be bad long term. This tech trend chasing BS is really annoying.

[mistressofmuses]

I won't be stumbling over the acronym anymore!

It's extremely gross and predatory. I very deeply hate the trend-chasing, and the way it comes down to fucking people over in perpetuity to save a buck.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

If you want to make use of someone's likeness, or things they have produced, then you must pay them for that.

But this kind of argument isn't new. This happens EVERY time technology advances, and business owners try to take advantage of creators without paying them. A big problem is that a few decades back, the kerfluffle over music rights and home video made a lot of businesses start issuing contracts with phrases like "all technologies now existing or invented in the future." That's dangerous because you don't know if there's some future technology you would have moral objections to; it violates the premise of informed consent, because you can't know the risks of things that don't exist yet. I pointed this out at the time. And here we are arguing over AI technology that can have very grave impacts if not used responsibly, so lots of folks want nothing to do with it because, duh, business owners immediately started using it irresponsibly.

If I were a lawyer, I'd be salivating.