Given the explicit "we'll just wait for them to lose their housing" messaging from the Hollywood executives... Good on SAG-AFTRA. This can only increase the bargaining power of both groups.
Waiting until striking workers run out of money is absolutely gentille, when it comes to the history of strike-breaking.
Has anyone run the numbers on how long this might take? I know there's a lot of people in both striking unions who aren't super wealthy, but don't know what the spread is.
I'm fully expecting more dogmatic/richer members to bankroll the strike to prevent it breaking. I'm guessing through loans or something.
From an end-user's point of view, though, that's actually really great. I love Star Trek The Next Generation. They're never making any more than those seven glorious seasons. If I could subscribe to a streaming service that offered an infinite number of AI-produce believably-authentic episodes featuring the original characters, and plot that could plausibly have been real episodes, I'd subscribe in a heartbeat. I'd j…
> Would I pay for an AI-based infinite album maker? You bet! it sounds like you don't even like art what exactly do you feel when you listen to music? what makes you want to listen to music? what drew you to rush and pink floyd in the first place? i ask because my subjective answers to those questions are diametrically opposed to some theoretical generative AI album maker
This not some dirty tactic, it is specifically how all breakdowns in employer/union negotiations go. Union withdraws their labour until their demands are met, employer doesn't agree until their demands are met. As time goes on, both lose money, both parties are betting the other party will compromise in a beneficial way before their side does. If you don't approve of this, you don't approve of unionization. Because t…
You seem to misunderstand what unionisation is. The current state of things has been reached as kind of a gentleman's agreement. If employers want to revert to life threatening solutions, unions will revert to life threatening solutions too. Sequestration, destruction, tarring, and other fun things. But then again, defenestration of a bunch of execs might just be the exact thing the world needs to put some fear back…
Life threatening solutions? Let’s cut the hyperbole please. You are the one making threats here, no one else is.
They have made an offer of employment to the union, following the legal framework in the country.
It’s the same predicament any striking worker has. Each party is applying significant financial pressure on each other to get what they hope will be a better deal than the current offer.
How… how do you think this works in other strikes?
Writing and acting are both explorations of the human condition. I am unsure how something that's removed from the experience of humanity can portray that in any sense. I still think it's interesting to explore new ideas so I am curious to see how generative content (writing, actors, settings etc.) will be utilized in different contexts.
I guess the part that feels disconnected to me is that just because you call something art doesn't make it so, and just because you make something with AI doesn't mean it will be intelligent or interesting. But content creators will only care about improving their standards if content comsumers stop eating shiny-looking shit on a platter. I guess one can dream...or demand better standards and have higher expectations. If the bar to create something is so low, then anything that's created must be proportionally evocative, profound etc.
There's the Animation Guild for collective bargaining, and ASIFA (which is like the Academy of cartoons). https://animationguild.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASIFA-Hollywood
The Animation Guild is a good model. Disney, whose animators have been unionized since the 1950s, bought Fox's animation operation and is trying to run it non-union. They're refusing to bargain with TAG, even though Disney has recognized the union.[1] There aren't that many animation studios left. Most either went out of business or were bought by Disney. The remaining Hollywood unionized animation studios are Disney…
I'm surprised Rick + Morty is its own thing. Wouldn't they be part of [adult swim] (Warner)?
Is R+M in Hollywood while the rest is run from Atlanta?
Cavill did not leave voluntarily. HE was pushed out because he wanted to stay true to the lore.. Netflix and their hand picked show runners disagree and want to completely change the story
OTOH, the best season of the Witcher was Season One, which Cavill had little to no control over substantively or stylistically. Season 3 is the season in which he has exercised the most creative control...this is the Witcher as he envisions it...and it's making GOT Season 7 look good.
This is factually incorrect. Cavill had almost no control over season 3
OTOH, the best season of the Witcher was Season One, which Cavill had little to no control over substantively or stylistically. Season 3 is the season in which he has exercised the most creative control...this is the Witcher as he envisions it...and it's making GOT Season 7 look good.
This is factually incorrect. Cavill had almost no control over season 3
That is factually incorrect. Cavill wanted them to be more faithful to the books, so they changed from the monster of the week setup of the 1st season to the silly political drama of the books.
The thing about The Witcher is that the books aren't very good. People like the Witcher despite the horrible writing (the same way people liked Twilight despite the horrible writing). If Season 1 had been faithful to the books it would never have taken off.
Most people seem to be basing their ideas for what the show should be like based on what the games were like, but the games are quite liberal in their adaptation of the underlying material.
From an end-user's point of view, though, that's actually really great. I love Star Trek The Next Generation. They're never making any more than those seven glorious seasons. If I could subscribe to a streaming service that offered an infinite number of AI-produce believably-authentic episodes featuring the original characters, and plot that could plausibly have been real episodes, I'd subscribe in a heartbeat. I'd j…
> Would I pay for an AI-based infinite album maker? You bet! it sounds like you don't even like art what exactly do you feel when you listen to music? what makes you want to listen to music? what drew you to rush and pink floyd in the first place? i ask because my subjective answers to those questions are diametrically opposed to some theoretical generative AI album maker
I would pay good money for an AI generator of Children of Bodom music featuring Alexei, or an AI rendition of his style. It's the only way I'd be able to hear new things of his very specific style now that he is dead.
From an end-user's point of view, though, that's actually really great. I love Star Trek The Next Generation. They're never making any more than those seven glorious seasons. If I could subscribe to a streaming service that offered an infinite number of AI-produce believably-authentic episodes featuring the original characters, and plot that could plausibly have been real episodes, I'd subscribe in a heartbeat. I'd j…
> Would I pay for an AI-based infinite album maker? You bet! it sounds like you don't even like art what exactly do you feel when you listen to music? what makes you want to listen to music? what drew you to rush and pink floyd in the first place? i ask because my subjective answers to those questions are diametrically opposed to some theoretical generative AI album maker
Should I like art only if they're made by humans? If I did a blind test between AI and humans and I like the AI, does that make me suddenly not like "art?" Face it, I (along with most people) like the outputs of art, not the inputs. We simply don't care whether a human or a computer or a dog made it, as long as the output is good. If you want to define "art" as only a human thing, go ahead, but I will still watch and listen to what I like, regardless of its creator, and if that's not true "art," then I don't really care.
Given the explicit "we'll just wait for them to lose their housing" messaging from the Hollywood executives... Good on SAG-AFTRA. This can only increase the bargaining power of both groups.
Waiting until striking workers run out of money is absolutely gentille, when it comes to the history of strike-breaking.