Friday, November 10, 2023
The Longest Strike in SAG-AFTRA History Ends With Historic Deal
collider.com: After 118 days of picket lines and standing firm in their demands of Hollywood studios, the Screen Actors Guild has been met with a historic deal. Officially ending the strike at 12:01 a.m. PT, November 9, an agreement for the first-of-its-kind protections against AI and significant pay increases, streaming participation bonuses, and more will now be put to vote to over 160,000 SAG-AFTRA members.
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I think that the new protections against AI are especially good for theater and art as a whole. I believe that art should be a human created experience, and the use of AI should be as tools to further human expression and performances, and not to replace them. AI should be used as a wrench, and not a mechanical arm. I think that the stage designers union should also employ some of these same protections against subsidizing AI to replace the work of designers–and although that technology is definitely coming, It’s still probably a few years off. It does worry me that we might be facing a large amount of unemployment in the future as more skilled workers are replaced by automated positions, much like the typists or calculators in the late 20th century. This strike ending hopefully means hollywood will start to produce more movies and TV shows again, and pay increases will finally mean that actors can earn a better living wage.
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