News Summary

• The studios have been silent, but Hollywood’s biggest labor unions aren’t buying the AI apocalypse narrative.
• Despite the differences between entertainment-focused AI and the models developed by Anthropic and OpenAI, AI models that generate digital facsimiles of actors pose a threat to some human jobs.
• The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ (SAG-AFTRA) chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree Ireland told me that the union recognized early on how AI could impact its members’ livelihoods.