If you think these concerns are overblown, read this piece in Slate about what’s already being done with AI-created likenesses overlaid onto body doubles (at least human stand-ins aren’t obsolete). Those issues aside I find myself preoccupied by more fundamental questions: Is this the future we want? Will people actually be entertained by an actor’s machine-generated likeness uttering machine-generated lines? “Los Angeles today is a cockpit of labor militancy,” he writes, which is remarkable given the area’s historic reputation as the “open shop capital of America.” Writing on The Times’ op-ed page, UC Santa Barbara historian Nelson Lichtenstein casts the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes as part of a much broader, growing labor struggle that has Los Angeles as its epicenter. This dual strike - the first in more than six decades that both writers and actors walked off the job - could be economically devastating to Los Angeles, and The Times’ editorial board encourages the unions and the studios to come to a quick and fair resolution.ĭisruptive as these strikes may be, it’s heartening to see labor flex its muscle - as a union member myself, I care deeply about the success of organized labor - especially in an industry known for poor working conditions for everyone but its biggest celebrities. Members of SAG-AFTRA, Hollywood’s largest actors union, joined their counterparts in the Writers Guild of America on the picket lines Friday morning, bringing nearly all film and TV production to a halt. I’m Paul Thornton, and it is Saturday, July 15, 2023.
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