Disney was accused of using AI without permission when filming the Marvel Studios’ Disney+ series WandaVision, according to a background actor. Several performers who participated in the Disney+ series WandaVision shared their experiences with the utilisation of AI technology by Disney and Marvel in a report. Alexandria Rubalcaba, one of these background players, talked about how the actors’ bodies and faces were photographed without their knowledge or agreement. Rubalcaba claims that she and several other background extras were taken to a trailer on the scene where their faces were photographed and scanned.
Make your hands visible. Put your hands inside. Check this out. That way, look. Show us your terrified expression. Let us see your astonished expression,” the crew told her, according to what Rubalcaba remembered. What if SarahVision or MarioVision isn’t something I want to be on? I worry that background actors will soon become extinct due to AI. They won’t require us any longer. Rubalcaba claims that none of the performers were informed of the intent or use of these scans, whether or not their digital duplicates would be used on screen, or whether or not they would be paid. Rubalcaba and the other performers claimed they were never given the chance to give their agreement to the use of their digital copies despite the fact that they were paid at the usual SAG-AFTRA union rate for their work on WandaVision. Similar accounts from other background performers date back several years, according to the report, and predate the recent SAG-AFTRA strike.
Concerns concerning the possible replacement of performers in the entertainment business have been raised as a result of these scans reportedly being utilised to generate AI digital duplicates of the actors. The assistant professor of cinema and television at Drexel University, Andrew Susskind, remarked, “Imagine ballroom scenes, party scenes, or any scenes that need tonnes of extras.” “Consider how much money they could save. not spending $180 per day. and meals. Added costume. The performers, extras, and writers are correct to see this as their finest opportunity to establish the guidelines for the usage of AI, he continued. And here, the folks in the background who frequently lack genuine authority and get unfair treatment ought to speak up for themselves. The WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes are still going on in large part because of the employment of AI technology to substitute performers and writers. As of May 2023, talks between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) failed due to issues with produced content and AI technology.
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