{"id":597416,"date":"2023-11-12T05:56:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-12T02:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/justine-bateman-slams-sag-aftra-tentative-deals-ai-provisions\/"},"modified":"2023-11-12T05:56:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-12T02:56:28","slug":"justine-bateman-slams-sag-aftra-tentative-deals-ai-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/justine-bateman-slams-sag-aftra-tentative-deals-ai-provisions\/","title":{"rendered":"#Justine Bateman Slams SAG-AFTRA Tentative Deal\u2019s AI Provisions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Though SAG-AFTRA officially reached a tentative agreement on a new contract with studios and streamers earlier this week, Justine Bateman is not very pleased with the provisions surrounding artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

\n The actress-writer-filmmaker told MSNBC<\/em>\u2019s Ali Velshi on Friday that actors should app<\/a>rove the deal only \u201cif they don\u2019t want to work anymore. If they want to be replaced by synthetic objects that are made by generative AI, why not?\u201d<\/p>\n

\n SAG-AFTRA members are set to begin voting to ratify the agreement on Tuesday after the new contract was approved by 86 percent of union board members on Friday.<\/p>\n

\n Velshi went on to reference a recent story from The Hollywood Reporter <\/em>where DreamWorks founder\u00a0Jeffrey Katzenberg\u00a0predicts that AI will drastically cut the number of workers it takes to make animated films.<\/p>\n

\n In response, Bateman, who served as a union advisor for generative AI, said she feels studio executives \u201care choosing to no longer be in the film and series<\/a> business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI think they sort of like to think of themselves as being tech barons themselves or something. But this, doing projects that don\u2019t involve humans \u2026 you\u2019re not in the film business anymore,\u201d she added. \u201cPeople who don\u2019t want to have any human involved have never really been on a set. They don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like to make a film.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Bateman said for herself as a filmmaker, \u201cShe\u2019s never using generative AI. I like what people do as members of a crew, members of the writers, the editors, the cinematographers, the make-up artists, the actors.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Velshi also asked the filmmaker what consumers of entertainment and media<\/a> can do to help protect creatives in the industry who want to avoid using AI. Bateman said it \u201cdepends on what you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n \u201cI mean, soon they\u2019ll have customized films for you based on your particular viewing history,\u201d she explained. \u201cAnd they won\u2019t bother to copyright them because it\u2019ll be like Kleenex. They\u2019ll make a million of them an hour, it won\u2019t matter to them. \u2026 You can get yourself scanned and get yourself put in these pieces. And there will be a novelty that eventually will wear off, \u2018cause I think people will still hunger for something real and human.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n She continued, \u201cThe train track is split. One train track is going, \u2018OK, we\u2019re going to participate in this sort of negotiation with the cannibals and we\u2019re going to talk about just how you\u2019re going to be cutting my foot off, and are you going to grill it or boil it, and what kind of sauce are you going to put on it?\u2019\u201d That track is the one that includes generative AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n But Bateman said she\u2019s on a completely different train track where \u201cI\u2019m going to be making human things for human audiences with human crews and casts and so forth. And we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n

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