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87% of Sag-Aftra members do not make at least $26,000 annually: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cuqi3UyOicg/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D

Full strike rules: https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cupx8T_Prfb/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D

My Related Work:

A Kick In The Teeth! Podcast E63: Hollywood Writers on Strike! https://www.patreon.com/posts/kick-in-teeth-on-82652271

A Kick In The Teeth! Podcast E62: Does AI Give The People What They Want? (Algorithmic Formulas, Nostalgia, and Creativity): https://www.patreon.com/posts/kick-in-teeth-ai-82291783

A Kick In The Teeth! Podcast E45: Can We Abolish The Stock Market? https://www.patreon.com/posts/kick-in-teeth-we-75732617

A Kick In The Teeth! Podcast E56: What Was The Reason? (On AI): https://www.patreon.com/posts/kick-in-teeth-on-79859394

A Kick In The Teeth! Podcast E38: AI Art and Algorithmic Thinking: https://www.patreon.com/posts/kick-in-teeth-ai-73018482

A Kick In The Teeth! Podcast E47: Gen Z Realized 'Nepo Babies' Are A Thing: https://www.patreon.com/posts/kick-in-teeth-z-76302600

A Kick In The Teeth! Podcast E53: Awards Are Not Real: https://www.patreon.com/posts/kick-in-teeth-78468956

A Kick In The Teeth! Podcast E60: P-Valley Season 2 ***Review*** (GBU Format): https://www.patreon.com/posts/kick-in-teeth-p-81525208

A Kick In The Teeth! Podcast E59: P-Valley Season 1 ***Review*** (GBU Format): https://www.patreon.com/posts/kick-in-teeth-p-80947809

On Celeb Family Nepotism & Familial Wealth (YouTube):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixuc-ODj2ps

I Hate Awards Shows playlist (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3YCr5ve8oqaR8uW_RGmM03IJgujqy4n8

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Did you know I wrote a book? ☺️ 'So, About That... A Year of Contemporary Essays on Race and Pop Culture'

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Links:

Hollywood actors’ union SAG-AFTRA votes to strike. ‘We are the victims here:’ https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-07-13/sag-aftra-board-strike-plan-vote

Actors union joins writers on strike, shutting down Hollywood: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/13/sag-actors-union-goes-on-strike-joining-hollywood-writers.html

Hollywood’s historic double strike, explained: https://www.vox.com/culture/2023/7/13/23793828/sag-aftra-strike-wga-hollywood

Hollywood Studios’ WGA Strike Endgame Is To Let Writers Go Broke Before Resuming Talks In Fall: https://deadline.com/2023/07/writers-strike-hollywood-studios-deal-fight-wga-actors-1235434335/

Studios Allegedly Won’t End Strike Till Writers “Start Losing Their Apartments:” https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/07/studios-allegedly-wont-end-strike-til-writers-start-losing-their-apartments

Disney CEO Bob Iger Says Writers and Actors Are Not Being ‘Realistic’ With Strikes: ‘It’s Very Disturbing to Me:’https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/bob-iger-writers-actors-strike-disney-ceo-1235669169/

Bob Iger Lambasted For CNBC Comments About Strike: “He Came Out Of Retirement To Make $54 Million In Two Years And Says This:”https://deadline.com/2023/07/bob-iger-lambasted-for-cnbc-comments-about-strike-he-came-out-of-retirement-to-make-54-million-in-two-years-and-says-this-1235437262/

Hollywood actors go on strike, say it's time for studio execs to 'wake up:' https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187310535/hollywood-actors-strike-sag-aftra

SAG-AFTRA Declares Double Strike as Actors Join Writers on Picket Lines: https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/sag-aftra-double-strike-wga-amptp-1235669492/

SAG-AFTRA Contract Talks Fail To Reach Deal; National Board Meeting Thursday Morning To Launch Strike; Sides Issue Statements: https://deadline.com/2023/07/actors-strike-contract-talks-fail-sag-aftra-to-launch-pickets-1235436031/

Hollywood's 'Groundbreaking' AI Proposal for Actors Sounds Like a Nightmare: https://gizmodo.com/sag-aftra-ai-actors-strike-amptp-ceos-likeness-image-1850638409

Report: baristas and fast-food workers behind sharp uptick in strikes in 2022: https://thefern.org/ag_insider/report-baristas-and-fast-food-workers-behind-sharp-uptick-in-strikes-in-2022/

LA’s Hotel Workers Are on Strike:https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/la-hotel-workers-strike/

UPS strike could be costliest in US in a century, study says: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/potential-ups-strike-could-cost-customers-over-4-bln-report-2023-07-13/

Southwest pilots’ union lays groundwork for potential strike with labor talks at an impasse: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/06/29/southwest-pilots-union-lays-groundwork-for-potential-strike.html

It's a Wild West for AI-generated political ads:https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2023/06/20/ai-generated-political-ads

The AI political campaign is here:https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/politics/ai-election-ads-2024/index.html

AI Is Making Politics Easier, Cheaper and More Dangerous: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-07-11/chatgpt-ai-boom-makes-political-dirty-tricks-easier-and-cheaper#xj4y7vzkg

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Nefi

I hope this also changes the gaming industry. I mainly play fighting games, and many of those games use motion capture. They basically hire actual fighting experts to do those moves. It's apparently an exhausting and tedious process. The movelist can be very long, and not all moves will be approved. In the first Mortal Kombat games, they used actual pictures of actors/fighters. Many (fighting) games also use face scans. Meaning that the character gets to use the face of an actual actor. Many characters get sold as additional content. I remember paying around $12 for Mileena. Many of those moves and faces are reused for multiple games. But those actors don't see much of the money. Lots of games recycle the likeness of actors but never pay those actors, even though these games cost like $100 these days. Games have surpassed movies in revenue, but the devs, actors and most of the workers aren't getting paid. I support everyone in this strike, and I hope people get paid. These executives are greedy!

Bayli

Thank you for continuing to talk about this Seren! Its amazing that the actors are on strike as well and I wonder who will break first especially with awards season coming. The scariest part is so many people are supporting AI content like fake song covers, or generating what their future kids may look like without thinking about the implications that these will have. The average consumer doesn't care where their content comes from or how its given to them and the studios are well aware of that fact. What's worse is no other unions are on strike so if studios move forward with AI film and TV, so many people will work on producing them (props, costumes, grip, etc) because they need the money to survive. The outcome of this is going to set the precedent for so many industries.