SAG-AFTRA’s Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on How Consumers Can Support Video Game Actors Strike as It Nears 250-Day Mark
#Variety #News #ActorsStrike #SAGActorsStrike #SAGAFTRA

https://variety.com/2025/gaming/news/video-game-actors-strike-update-sag-aftra-1236352655/

EA Chief Says There Will Be No ‘Significant Short-Term Impact’ From Video Game Actors Strike, Teases Expanding ‘The Sims’ Franchise
#Variety #News #ActorsStrike #ElectronicArts #Mediaearnings #TheSims

https://variety.com/2024/gaming/news/ea-ceo-video-game-actors-strike-the-sims-franchise-1236090632/

Had you any doubts about the #ActorsStrike over #AI, watch all of the video.

Understand, I have UE5.4, and it is spectacular. It runs on a PC. You can see how quickly it operates (on a high-end PC).

It's a half hour you may enjoy. It is a very realistic system and they show off a lot of its power.

What can one #Nvidia 4090 do? Well, this:

https://youtu.be/1p7eF2o5y1E

SAG-AFTRA members: vote now for the TV/Film Tentative Agreement.

Vote now at link in bio and at: https://vote.ivsballot.com/tvtheatrical2023/login.aspx?AcceptsCookies=yes

You can get your PIN on the voting site.

SAG-AFTRA members: time to vote for the TV/Film Tentative Agreement.

Vote now at: https://vote.ivsballot.com/tvtheatrical2023/login.aspx?AcceptsCookies=yes

You can get your PIN on the voting site.

Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to object and bargain if someone wanted to replace you at work with a machine, instead of being sorely out of luck (S.O.L.)?

The tentative agreement aims to make that dream a reality, if it ratifies: https://bit.ly/DominionOverTheMachines

via Duncan Crabtree-Ireland: “An insightful analysis from the law professor who was the USA's chief negotiator of the international treaty a protecting actors’ performances. Check it out…”

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-30/ai-hollywood-sag-aftra-strike-streaming-residuals-digital-replacement

Watching the second Contract Roundtable talk about the tentative agreement, and happy to be seeing what David Blue & Jen Levin put together.

Thankful for them and Ben Whitehair,
Jason Winston George, Woody Schultz, Charlie Bodin, Natalia Castellanos, Nicole Cyrille, Frances Fisher and everyone who has worked so hard for so many.

https://youtu.be/ILqICEX23VU

In the article, Iger reveals he just learned a good story matters, & he believes he’s been fixing things at the company which has faced 2 proxy fights this year, triggered 1st dual strike in ½ century & the longest actors strike in film history, & he’s personally being sued by multiple groups of investors. Bob, you are the problem. It’s you, chucklehead.

https://www.ign.com/articles/disney-ceo-thinks-the-marvels-is-underperforming-because-there-werent-enough-executives#

“You think that’s bunk? Read the papers!”

I wasn’t going to share this. But then one of the four fools calls themselves courageous, and I think: they earned, and keep earning, the disrespect their destructive choices bring.

Actors: Vote yes for the 2023 Film/TV SAG-AFTRA tentative agreement with the AMPTP by Tuesday, December 5, 2023.

Vote here: https://vote.ivsballot.com/tvtheatrical2023/login.aspx?AcceptsCookies=yes

If you don’t have your voting PIN you can get it on the voting site.

Please ask me any questions you have and I’ll try to answer them as well as I can.

Happily, Data Driven Investor has published my article “Dominion Over the Machines”: https://bit.ly/DominionOverTheMachines

So Colleen Basis has shared some clear thoughts on how to evaluate and plan for what is needed if the tentative agreement is not ratified.

A plan for what comes next matters: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0NW-FwP55P/

I just finished writing this article. I think many are underestimating just how impactful this SAG-AFTRA tentative agreement can be: https://bit.ly/DominionOverTheMachines

I made this image for an article I’m writing called “Dominion Over the Machines” about how the SAG-AFTRA AI precedents (if ratified) may move things forward not just for actors, but for every human that may face non-humans doing their work.

Interesting times we’re in.

So Alex Winter wrote a nice article about the SAG-AFTRA tentative agreement:

https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-actors-sag-artificial-intelligence-contract/

Page 69 (nice) of SAG-AFTRA MOA is 1st time in history a union contract says workers are human & union shall negotiate if a non-human substitute is used.

People performing are human, & union gets to cover humans _and_ non-human substitutes.

We get to be people!

Source PDF: https://www.sagaftra.org/files/2023%20SAG-AFTRA%20TV-Theatrical%20MOA_F.pdf

Listening to I Wanna Be a Rich B*Tch podcast ep: Sarah Seeds breaks down specifics of what’s in SAG-AFTRA contract & negotiations & then she & Edward Miskie talk about it. STRAP IN.

Listen here: https://d3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net/staging/2023-10-19/71a606c7-1959-d5f4-08f7-d26cd40f32cd.m4a