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Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever

www.theverge.com Actors say Hollywood studios want their AI replicas — for free, forever

No, this is not a Black Mirror episode.

“This ‘groundbreaking’ AI proposal that they gave us yesterday, they proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation. So if you think that’s a groundbreaking proposal, I suggest you think again.”

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So people should make less money in more developed countries because people in Africa do? What are you arguing for here? A person making $30 instead of $15 an hour isn't going to affect Africa in any tangible way. Global wealth inequality is a much larger issue than Hollywood, and I'm not sure why they would even be brought into the same argument.
- I'm arguing the disparity in wealth should shrink and people like those in the article are just passing a bunch of money around at the top.
  We have the excess to help those less fortunate, but we'd rather further ourselves because it's what's cool. It's a cultural issue centered around the idea that those who have more deserve more and those who have less don't matter.
  People like you get really mad whenever anyone suggests anything to the contrary and that's why these problems don't get solved. People like you don't care to solve them.
  
  The people mentioned in the article are background actors. Extras. Look it up, they only get paid $100-200 a day. Even if they were an extra every weekday of the year that's $26,000 a year. These people aren't getting rich.
  I'm not mad. I agree with helping elevate Africa economically to help it become a more developed part of the world. I just don't think that a thread about background actors being digitally copied to stiff them on potential poverty wages is the best use of your time for your attempted efforts to help Africa.
  
  They still have more wealth and higher quality of life than the vast majority of people ever to walk to the Earth.
  Have you noticed how all of these people always need more money? It's because the moment they get more, prices go up and they're right back where they started. All of these happens while children go without food, water, electricity, shelter, and education. These problems will not be solved by doing the same thing we've been doing.
  The solution isn't to make more. It's to spend less. When that becomes sexy, these problems will be solved overnight.
  
  Please explain to me how people in poverty in the US spending less money helps people in Africa.
  
  Prices won't be able to rise and we'll have more excess to give to those who need it.
  It's a pretty simple concept if you put forth even the slightest amount of effort into understanding it.
  Ask the opposite. How does paying Americans more help global poverty? Oh yeah, it doesn't. Lol. That's all according to plan. That's what I mean by "passing a bunch of money around at the top."
  We focus on 'space tourism' before children have food and water. These problems will never be solved if people keep listening to your rhetoric, which unfortunately they do.
  Wake me up when the problems get solved doing something I don't suggest. I'd love to admit when I'm wrong so long as the problems get solved. But you're just repeating history because you haven't learned from it yet.
  
  Prices won’t be able to rise and we’ll have more excess to give to those who need it.
  Have you met "people"? Almost no one is going to give excess money to developing countries without knowing there are logistics in place to make sure the money goes to good use.
  It’s a pretty simple concept if you put forth even the slightest amount of effort into understanding it.
  Ask the opposite. How does paying Americans more help global poverty? Oh yeah, it doesn’t. Lol. That’s all according to plan. That’s what I mean by “passing a bunch of money around at the top.”
  So I guess these background actors should stop expecting wages and just die from poverty? Or are you expecting the money "passing...around at the top" to trickle down to everyone in the world. Money "at the top" doesn't have any actual fucking value. It's fake currency that sits in bank accounts as large numbers. It doesn't help anyone in the world, especially developing countries.
  We focus on ‘space tourism’ before children have food and water. These problems will never be solved if people keep listening to your rhetoric, which unfortunately they do.
  You are arguing about human rights equality in a thread about Hollywood actor unions. Is your time spent here helping anyone at all?
  Wake me up when the problems get solved doing something I don’t suggest. I’d love to admit when I’m wrong so long as the problems get solved. But you’re just repeating history because you haven’t learned from it yet.
  "These problems will never be solved".
  "Wake me up when the problems get solved".
  You are actively participating in not helping people of Africa my man.
  
  Wow, you really took out the mental gymnastics to avoid admitting people with more wealth than average should have even more.
  It's okay. Just say you think the disparity in wealth should grow instead of shrink and we can go on with our lives.
  We don't have to be on the same side.
  
  Are no point did I say or even suggest that. I don't think billionaires should exist.

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