Producers want to replicate extras using AI forever for just 200

https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/14/actors_strike_gen_ai/

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    You have to be a fricking moron to sell your likeness permanently for $200. I'm sure tons of people would be willing to do it.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The founder of StabilityAI sold his stake on the company for $100 and got BTFO. Keke
      It happens, bro. People think they don't need lawyers or sometimes are just desperate. It's a doggie doggy dogged world.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      didn't bruce willis sell his likeness to some russian movie studio? lol.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, but he's worth like 300M. Now if you are a poor shmuck trying to get into the industry I'm sure that's going to pop in a bunch of contracts from now on.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        But he has dementia, and close to death

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        but it must have been for a one-time thing right?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, you are right.
          >Bruce Willis did not sell his rights to a deepfake studio, despite reports of the contrary that recently went viral online. The Telegraph reported at the end of Sept. that Willis made history as “the first Hollywood star to sell his rights to allow a ‘digital twin’ of himself to be created for use on screen.” While a “digital twin” of Willis was created by the deepfake company Deepcake to be used in an advertisement for the Russian telecoms company MegaFon, Deepcake does not own the rights to Willis’ image — or to his “digital twin.”

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Give it a year and the price tag will be $0.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      These actors have less job stability than day laborers hanging out In front of Home Depot, and often less earning potential. They come in for the job as an extra, and are told they need to be scanned, or they won't get paid for the day. Chances are the contact they sign is never explained, and they have no time to read it themselves. Super shady shit by the studios, because they have way more money and power, and figure they can get away with it.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'll do it. I'm literally nobody, some lonely poor nerd. So if I could be a part of every movie from now on until the rest of time, why not? My likeness doesn't have any worth.

      There's this strange idea that the "actors deserve money". Why? If there's a cost saving method that produces the same quality or near the same quality, then it should be taken. Then the actors can go get a job on a farm or somewhere where they're actually needed.

      Because they're not needed anymore.

      Artists aren't needed either.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        You cant get more bug minded than this homosexual. Jfc just have a nice day at this point. Machines were supossed to get the backbreaking jobs so humanity could focus on science and art and now morons like you want it to be the other way around instead. Kys

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Wrong. The landowning peasant was historically respected while the artist was looked down upon.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Machines were supossed to get the backbreaking jobs so humanity could focus on science and art
          It sounds like you were sold on a narrative and are now realizing you were duped. There is no reason to call anyone names though.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Good actors are needed. Granted, most actors and most roles that are played (even by good actors) don't hit it off at all. But a good actor conveys the meaning of his role and the story better than any AI will be able to in the foreseeable future, because a) thousands of minuscule details in facial expression, tone of voice, etc. and b) he's real. And imitation will never beat the real thing.

        In fact, the whole AI development only makes people realize: We have to go back to meet in person, as everything on the web soon will be indistinguishable from fakes and you can't trust anything digital anymore. Some people are afraid. Me, I'm happy. People finally give up on the internet as their central pivot in life and get back into the real world again, leaving this mess behind for anything but what it's useful for: research, entertainment and automation.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It sounds like a good idea, but then someone could use your face as neo-Fuhrer in a future-Nazi movie, and you would have to try to explain that you aren't actually the neo-Fuhrer, and that you sold your face for $200.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >sell your likeness for $200 once
      >for the rest of your life you can say "yeah I was in that movie, look that's me"

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >9 billion people
      supply and demand anon

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      can they do whatever they want with it? can they cast you as "gay porn movie theater patron" in perpetuity? there you are, 300 years after your death, jackin' it in the background to gay porn.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      you don't need to sell shit, you can already generate an infinite amount of faces

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >You have to be a fricking moron to sell your likeness permanently for $200. I'm sure tons of people would be willing to do it.

      Indeed. And what happened when Hollywood demands all extras and newbie actors sign a CGI release form and then use that actor's likeness as the main characters in later movies? The studios can use their likeness to make bazillion dollar flicks and literally never have to pay the actual human actor ever again.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You can already pay people $200 to stand around in the cold and rain all day just to feature in the background for 5 seconds.

      I'm sure some poor sap will gladly sell their likeness to an AI.

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    damn israelites look like THAT ?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Goy converts, maybe.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This post was really funny.
      Learn more about israelites here: https://youtu.be/6UhUafWrUXA

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >damn israelites look like THAT ?
      not a israelite, israelites tend to hideous.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel_Riley
      >Picrel is 10/10 in Occupied Palestine. No wonder so many of them are gays and pedos....

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >not a israelite, israelites tend to hideous.
        but, she not only is. your link confirms?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Early life and early career

          Riley was born in Rochford, Essex.[4] She was raised in the Thorpe Bay area of Southend-on-Sea and was educated at the independent Thorpe Hall School, and Southend High School for Girls,[5] a grammar school, where she obtained four As at A-Level.[6] She then completed a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Oxford.[7]

          During a university holiday, Riley considered a career in the financial sector and completed an internship at Deutsche Bank in the City of London. The experience put her off: she found the extreme behaviour of city traders wearing, and she disliked the early-morning train commute.

          Not a israelite

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Riley’s mother is israeli. She stated that, "My family came over in the pogroms" from Tsarist Russia.[30] She is an atheist.[30][31]
            moron

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            here's a BOTpro-tip you might find use of in the future
            ctrl+f

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is her butt sweating?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Femanon here, you will never understand, virgin.
      IYKYK

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Trannies are not female

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          You're thinking about trannies again, virgin.
          Lol, lmao

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          stop thinking about dicks, homosexual

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    You don't like it just don't sign the contract. It's not hard.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      that's exactly what they're not doing, you thick c**t. they've walked.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Then everything is fine? Why are you getting aggressive?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      You're a new, aspiring actor, and just scored a bit part on an episode of the current "it" show. You'll sign/do whatever they throw at you, short of sleeping with the producer.

      These actors have less job stability than day laborers hanging out In front of Home Depot, and often less earning potential. They come in for the job as an extra, and are told they need to be scanned, or they won't get paid for the day. Chances are the contact they sign is never explained, and they have no time to read it themselves. Super shady shit by the studios, because they have way more money and power, and figure they can get away with it.

      >Chances are the contact they sign is never explained, and they have no time to read it themselves

      If they can even read it.

      I worked as a PA on a very well known series. One of my jobs was assembling form packets we handed out to actors to sign. Despite being 8 seasons in, and office effectively run by the same person throughout, there seemed no good system for assembling them.
      We'd pull forms from several piles. And when a pile ran out, ran more copies. Of course the master if any was usually lost, so they'd just make a copy of a copy (which itself was a copy of a copy.) You could barely read the things, people only knew where to sign because we'd stick little "sign here" flags on them.
      Eventually I tracked down the original documents online, printed and assembled a master copy, and just ran that thing through the copier whenever we needed more. Way easier than trying to navigate 7 piles of paper on my desk (crammed between my lunch and other tasks they gave me that day.) Who knows if they kept up my system the next season.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    So as opposed to what, CGI characters that are completely made up?
    This is fricking nothing...

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    She is so hot

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      only in youth. she will hag soon enough.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Built for BBC, am I right? Also nice asscrack sweat line

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Channel 4, actually.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        kek

        only in youth. she will hag soon enough.

        >only in youth.
        She's 37.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This was her peak

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's a challenging wank.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          You to be open minded

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Yeah, I almost won Rectum of the Year once

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >do you compete?
              >nah man I'm only up to 2.1" diameter

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >that filename

            i will be waiting for you in /gif/ don't disappoint me

          • 10 months ago
            distrotube

            That's a challenging wank.

            I am hoping that is a melanin enriched baby inside of her

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Stop watching porn

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Those "Best cat out 10 moments" videos are super addicting, I've never seen a full British panel show episode yet I'm pretty sure I've seen them all anyway.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            I only watched the ones with Sean Lock.
            God bless him wherever he is

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              ?t=9m40s

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                She hit the wall,sad

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous
        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          That must a black baby inside her,surely she chose the superior genes ?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >blue leopard print
        HNNNNG

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's not sweat. Just a moire pattern from the two layers of her outfit.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Even trailer trash occasionally escape poverty. Good for her

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They didn't even ask Carrie Fisher to replicate her.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It was likely in her contract that they get to use her likeness. Or is there something I don't know about where it was proven that they didn't ask her?

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why can't they be replaced with AI completely?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      because that's immoral, it's taking work away from actors
      this is a compromise, and a fair one I'd say

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Isn't the whole end goal of humanity to make machines do all the work so the humans can do whatever they want.

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Always be creeped out by her, not sure why
    >She outs herself as a israeliteess
    My israelitedar never fails it seems

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    In a year or two they'll just be able to generate fake people from scratch anyway. I'm guessing the SAG union is strawmanning this specific perspective because it is so unpalatable to the public.

    Whatever, I hope the studios and the unions end up killing eachother, frick hollywood

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    women are the dumbest creaures on earth

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Didn't epic already invent AI tech that creates brand new people on demand?
    why would you use a real person's likeness instead of that?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      because that's immoral, it's taking work away from actors
      this is a compromise, and a fair one I'd say

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Nothing wrong with that

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is pretty sad.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why don't we have this here in america ?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's actually seethrough LMAO

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is pretty sad.

      Why don't we have this here in america ?

      It's actually seethrough LMAO

      Her name is Romina Malaspina btw.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Her hands are huge.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        What the frick are those skinwalker ass looking meathooks?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        lmao fricking deathclaw looking ass

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Rude.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          What the frick are those skinwalker ass looking meathooks?

          Her hands are huge.

          Now that you mention they really are. I thought it was some lens effect.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            good lord I can't take her seriously with those freddy kruger claws lmfao

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Imagine how tiny it would feel. haha

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            She's so cute in the last pic.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      why is she wearing chainmail?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >HOLLA IF YOU HEAR THE GENETIC FREAK BIG PAPA PUMP YOU FAT BASTEERD

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Err. That's not chain mail, that is Tier-5 heavy plate mail for a Paladin. It just looks see-through and skimpy because it's being worn by a female character.

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    NOOOOOOOOOOO I CAN'T JUST STAND AROUND IN FRONT OF A CAMERA TO MAKE MONEY? I HAVE TO DO REAL WORK? I'M MELTING.

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    i have no idea what panties she's wearing, what color or fabric or design they are. but my dickis fricking diamonds

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >FRICK YES! Now we can torture celebs who speak out against the snake cult for 10000 years in VR hell!

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >BOTtards are angry impotent roko's basilisk wannabes
      I'm shocked. Shocked, I say.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        t. raniesha X proponent

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    > get paid for work you never even showed up for
    > how could life be so cruel.jpg

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Whats the point of that? Isn't it better to just generate a completely new face?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      For nobodies, sure. For leads? Who's going to watch it? Everything else will have to be stellar and there's a bunch of morons that only watch movies because of some actors.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but I'd imagine the lead's likeness would sell for a lot more than 200.

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Kind of a man ass, that's a troony isn't it?

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >$200
    why are americans such fricking israelites?
    you americans really are worse than the israeli state you say you hate so much.

  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    kys

  24. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    this is like that episode of black mirror, they agreed.

  25. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    No disrespect but this lady's job bas been obsoleted by technology for decades.
    She is employed because people want someone attractive to pose and place physical cards on a physical structure and occasionally talk to the guests or host.

  26. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    there was a (kino) movie called the congress back in 2013 where this was the exact plot and I thought it was farfetched but we're here 10 years later. Scary to think where we'll be in 2033 with AI

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