Dave Pell –

Even with the widening and ever-damaging economic divide, Americans haven’t seemed to be willing to get behind workers. But things could get personal as major strikes, the actors and writers strike already happening, and the UPS strike that looks likely, are gonna take away the shit you love most: Your stuff and your shows.

AI is one of the issues being disputed in Hollywood. According to SAG-AFTRA’s chief negotiator, studios “proposed that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get one day’s pay, and their companies should own that scan, their image, their likeness and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity on any project they want, with no consent and no compensation.”

There’s no way the “background performers scanned and used forever” crowd is winning that battle. I really hope the UPS strike happens too. That will hurt a whole lot of people and companies.