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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AI should replace these types of jobs, no one should get paid millions to act in a movie.[/quote]

You're looking at the top of the A-list.  There are about 160K actors in SAG/AFTRA.  The average annual salary is $40K with 87% (140K) making less than $26K.  There are only a few thousand professional actors who make a full-time living and are able to survive on only acting as a source of income.  The vast majority of the acting community have to have other jobs to supplement their acting career.

The jobs that are being threatened by AI are the bottom of the pile.  Extra and non-speaking parts typically get paid about $100-200 per day.  They often have to show up early in the morning and stay until shooting is done for the day.  So for that $100-200 they can often be on-site for 10+ hours.

What the streaming services want is to be able to pay these people once, then retain their image and use AI to move the image in the background in perpetuity and not have to hire these extras ever again.  How would you like to sell your likeness, be in many films and TV shows in the background and never get paid again.  Because that's what the studios are trying to force the actor's guild to accept.  The contract also means that if an extra goes on to get a more significant part later in life and become much more recognized, that the studios will still have their image on record and have free license to put them in the background and draw extra income from people who stream the show to see an A-lister or B-lister in the background because when they were a starving artist making $10K a year they had to sell their likeness to eat.

Those are the people that you are throwing to the wolves.  Not Tom Hanks, Leo DiCaprio or Jennifer Lawrence.[/quote]

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