• Shadesto@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t really see a problem with this. Is it so much different from making a good 3D model?

    We’re talking about assets that will be used for generating massive crowds. That’s already done with CGI. These scans aren’t even “AI”… they’re just like metahumans in Cryengine.

    This guy just put the term AI on it because it freaks everyone out.

    If you take the $200 for a motion and body scan and you sign your rights away, that’s what you get. This isn’t a change to how Hollywood already operations. Fear-mongering for nothing.

    • grandfunk@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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      1 year ago

      That’s not what’s happening here. These extras are being paid the same to act in the background of a shot, just like always, but the studio expects them to give up the rights to their likeness forever after so they can try to replace them.

      The studio expects the extras to participate in the destruction of this job with nothing in return.

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      1 year ago

      The problem is that Hollywood could make it a requirement to work. All actors might be forced to get scanned and sign their likeness away.

      • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        And this is why unions are important. If it’s a single desperate person, then the big corporation gets its way. But if it’s a union, the corporation has to negotiate.