Performers Worry Artificial Intelligence Will Take Their Jobs

2023-06-10

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  • Leaders of the SAG-AFTRA actors' union say the group's members are concerned that they will lose work because of Artificial Intelligence, or AI, tools.
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  • The labor organization started talks with Hollywood movie studios about a new contract this week.
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  • Duncan Crabtree-Ireland is the main person speaking with movie studios on behalf of the actors.
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  • He is SAG-AFTRA's negotiator.
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  • He said people who work in movies have their stock-in-trade, or their special qualities that make them different from another actor.
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  • He listed an actor's name, voice, personality and likeness when describing those qualities.
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  • Crabtree-Ireland wants to be sure actors keep making money from their special qualities.
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  • For example, the labor organization wants to prevent movie production companies from taking an actor's image in one movie and using it to create a "digital double" for a new movie.
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  • Crabtree-Ireland said it would not be fair to do that without paying extra.
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  • Artificial intelligence tools have already been used to make "deepfakes" of well-known actors Tom Cruise and Keanu Reeves.
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  • Reeves called the technology "scary."
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  • Deepfake is the term for real-looking, but untrue, video.
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  • AI can be used to make deepfakes.
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  • AI tools have gained attention since the company OpenAI launched ChatGPT late last year.
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  • The tools that can create sound and video are known as generative AI.
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  • They can take real video of a person and make it seem as if the person is saying words that they never said.
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  • In Hollywood, the technology is being used to make actors look younger or to fix lip synch problems when a movie is dubbed into a different language.
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  • Justine Bateman is a producer, writer and actor.
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  • She was on the successful television program Family Ties when she was young.
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  • Her brother is the well-known actor, Jason Bateman.
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  • She has a computer science education and is concerned about how AI will change movies and television.
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  • She said studios could take parts from her old show and make a new season.
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  • While many actors are worried about AI, others can accept it.
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  • Harrison Ford and James Earl Jones are two older actors who told moviemakers they could use AI.
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  • Ford will appear in Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.
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  • He first played Indiana Jones in the 1980s.
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  • Now he is 80 years old.
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  • In parts of the new movie, Ford appears as a young man.
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  • Instead of using a different actor, the moviemakers used AI to make Ford look young.
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  • They used images of his performance in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
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  • James Earl Jones recently spoke with Vanity Fair magazine.
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  • He said he agreed to let the producers of Star Wars use AI to recreate his voice.
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  • Jones is 92 and provides the voice for Darth Vader.
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  • He said he wants Star Wars producers to use his voice even after he dies.
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  • It is not the first time Star Wars used AI.
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  • The company Disney used the technology to put Carrie Fisher into the 2019 film The Rise of Skywalker after she died.
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  • The actors' labor union wants to be sure anyone acting in a movie has a chance to say "yes" or "no" about using AI every time they accept a job.
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  • If SAG-AFTRA cannot reach an agreement with the movie companies, it may join the Writers Guild, another labor group, in a strike.
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  • Both unions want protections in place before signing new contracts.
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  • If the actors do not push for the protections, Bateman said, creativity and innovation might disappear from movies, television and music.
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  • She said everything made in the future is going to be based on work from the past.
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  • "I don't want to live in that world," she said.
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  • I'm Dan Friedell. And I'm Caty Weaver.