The current rules that SAG-AFTRA negotiated with the studios already allow the studios to use AI for "fix it in post" type stuff that doesn't alter an actor's performance, such as extending a scene or modifying the environment around an actor.
If they want to use AI to modify an actor's performance or generate new footage of an actor (the so-called "digital replica") they need to get the actor's consent in advance and compensate them based on the number of days the actor would have worked to produce the generated footage.
Unfortunately I couldn't find anything to confirm this, but it seems likely that Amazon is asking actors for a blanket waiver so they can use AI however they want. If that is the case it is understandable why Cage wouldn't want to work with them.
I see. So if they want to put a giant phallic object behind the actor, that's covered.
Not a fan some of Cage's acting (Con Air was terrible, Lord of War was good) but I admire him for doing this and being cool and open about it.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/netflix-nicolas-cage-s...
And of course there is no difference when people pirate a movie for their friends and $2 trillion companies stealing everyone's work. None at all!
Take a moment and try to understand before you construct such obviously silly and banal statements.
What are you talking about? Itch.io still exists, indie game studios still exist, FOSS software still exists, Bandcamp still exists, indie musicians still exist, etc.
The only thing I can think of that went out of business are platforms like Grooveshark (which was supported by “piracy”) which was litigated out business by the music industry. Spotify, the music industry main stay, is the one not paying artists.
Before rampant piracy, independent musicians could tour small clubs and sell music. I knew many artists that basically lost their entire business due to piracy within a year.
Nobody was willing to pay for music online, but sharing it for free was fine.
I have the same reaction now that many here and in the tech industry have had over the last decade or two:
Times change and you aren't owed a living. If you can't make money with the new AI landscape, I guess you should be going into a different industry.
FOSS licensing won't matter much anymore when you can use LLMs that make changes to a code base and it looks nothing like the original.
We needed protections 25 years ago, but too many in the industry didn't want to give up the free games, movies, music, and software.
Now that it's hitting their bottom line, there's talks of unions and protections from the government.
I'm pretty tired of the hypocrisy.
Why should I care now?
I’m from rural no-where and we still have bands and acts pass through that town on the regular making money. I now live in Nyc where there are PLENTY of places that have indie bands playing gigs and charging a door fee. So what has changed? Anyone that’s a serious about their output isn’t going to quit because of “piracy”.
As far as unions go, that talk was always squashed by the high pay and early retirement trend in the software industry. I would like to see it happen a long time ago too but it didn’t not happen because of “piracy”.
If they were such good devs and musicians you should be willing to link to them as examples. That would go a long way to link to their software/music site/blog/bandcamp in promoting them and getting people interested in them rather than complaining no one knows these people except from what’s been stolen from them.
Surely you will be able to name some of them.
> I knew many artists that basically lost their entire business due to piracy within a year.
So, you know many small companies and many musicians? Sounds honestly made up.