SAG-AFTRA, which has been on strike for 114 days, did not give a timeline for when it would respond.

What the fuck are the studios gonna do, make movies and shows without actors?

Highlights: The negotiating committee of the actors’ union, SAG-AFTRA, told its members on Saturday that it had received a “Last, Best and Final Offer” from the major entertainment studios as a strike that has brought much of Hollywood to a standstill continued for a 114th day.

“We are reviewing it and considering our response within the context of the critical issues addressed in our proposals,” the negotiating committee said. They did not say when they would respond to the offer, which came after an hourlong video conference call that included top studio executives.

Included in the offer was a wage increase that could be the highest in four decades, according to a person familiar with the offer who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations. The studios also offered the actors a new way to determine residuals for streaming programs based on performance metrics, and protections on artificial intelligence, including consent and compensation requirements. The studios also offered an increase to the pension and health funds.

    • Refurbished Refurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      A computer program written by humans with auditable code to calculate payroll is very different from a computer program using AI models that no human on Earth could feasibly comprehend via analysis performing the same task.

      AI can and has been “tweaked” in order to fit a specific agenda in the past (see: social media algorithms in general, especially Facebook’s social experiments), and it will be used to do the same in the future. The thing about AI is that direct human-caused motives for its actions are hard to prove.