[sprayk]

I was under the impression that striking actors concerns with AI were over AI reproducing their likenesses, but this article is claiming that the fears would also consider non-specific (non-imitation, non-likeness, ?) generated voices a threat. The former is at least what I've read as far as union demands go.

Actors demanding a cut of revenue generated with their likeness I can understand, but trying to stop all AI-gen content, even that which does not imitate a real person and was trained on ethically sourced, non-SAG data, smells like business-model protectionism or even luddism.

[VanTheBrand]

The article is just wrong. SAG is trying to prevent the specific companies that hire their members from recreating a performers actual visual or vocal likeness without compensation or for very little compensation. To the extent they oppose a “generic” AI voice it would be in the context of that voice being trained on material that was originaly created by SAG performers or under SAG contracts and used for training with little or no compensation.