“1923” star Sébastien Rochet and “Cobra Kai” star Alicia Hannah-Kim have tens of thousands on the first day of the SAG-AFTRA strike in hopes of finally reaching a fair deal with the AMPTP. Joined the impressive cast of people. I hope this strike will draw global attention to the dangers of AI.
“AI issues are important to our future, and to the future of our industry, and indeed this is a global issue. It will affect workers around the world,” said Rochet. told TheWrap at the picket line in front of Fox Studios in Los Angeles. Angeles. “They estimate that 300 million jobs will be lost to AI in the next five years. can’t keep using the images forever, they’re getting paid for it.”
As members of the SAG-AFTRA join the picket line with members of the WGA, Rocher hopes that high-profile actors with a “larger pulpit” will draw the attention of advocates to the impact of technology.
For Hanna Kim, protection from AI shares common ties with other key issues in the SAG-AFTRA negotiations, such as fair compensation and access to healthcare, all of which fall under the human rights category.
“We are in a time of great inequality. There are people who make hundreds of millions of dollars alone, but those who work in our industry are struggling to make a living, especially actors and Writers have a hard time, and I believe it’s a human right to meet the bare minimum to get medical care,” Hannah Kim told TheWrap. “When your profits and your ability to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to one person at the top are not evenly distributed to the bottom workers who generate those profits, that is a fundamental line of inequality that we must address. It’s nothing more than society.”
Rochet also referred to a recent Deadline report that quoted studio executives as saying that AMPTP’s plan to resolve the WGA strike is to start losing apartments and homes to screenwriters. This infuriated us and rallied the core of our trade unions to strike against their greed.” “
“Now is the time to fairly reward these great creative and highly skilled people. We are not asking for much,” Rocher continued. “Maybe cut the illegal wages that shareholders are paying CEOs. This is not a shareholder issue, it is an art issue, an appealing issue to the people. We owe our bloody shareholders We are not here as creators [and] We want to fight for fair dealing, that’s all. “
