A fair casting process, AI protection, and fair compensation.

I'm sure you know what that is.

Yeah, for the first time since the 1960s, both Hollywood actors and writers are on strike.

Now striking Hollywood actors hold their largest demonstration to date and it happened in Time Square.

At the same time.

Then and now, the problem is about technology disrupting the world of Hollywood.

And the question of whether actors and writers are being paid fairly.

In the 1960s, the technology was television.

Today, it's streaming platforms, but also the rise of powerful new artificial intelligence models.

Generative AI can make it way easier to use a performer's likeness or voice

without having that person there at all.

And in that case, who gets to profit from the performance?

This is TechQuickly, the digital double of Scientific Americans' science-quickly podcast.

I'm Sophie Bushwick, Tech Editor at Scientific American.

And I'm Tulika Bose, Senior Multimedia Editor.

So Sophie, I actually kind of spoke to a few actor friends about what's happening right now

and why people are striking.

I get the impression that some people are worried that they're going to be losing their jobs to an AI.

The worst-case scenario would be there's no more extrovert, which is just such a useful thing

for a lot of working actors, like even non-speaking roles extrovert.

Like that's money, adding if you can just AI generate a crowd and then does it look unrealistic?

The thought of red is very scary.

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