As both writers and actors are on the picket lines in Hollywood, the stakes couldn’t be higher: Will average entertainment workers be able to eke out a living in an industry awash in cash, or will studio executives use new tech like AI to gobble up all of it?
They’ve had workarounds to this forever. Marvel movies just use CG background characters. The Matrix 3 used a couple of background actors and then cloned the rest. Star Wars phantom menace used little toothpick people. There is absolutely no reason for these policies other than abject greed.
LOTR did it too with it’s battle scenes, it’s been pretty SOP for awhile now in hollywood. But the difference is in the past those actors who were recreated knew it, it wasn’t like they were unaware of the fact or anyone else on the production line
What hollywood is trying to do now with this technology is just plain theft to get away from paying anyone