What Next TBD: Are You Ready For A.I. Generated Actors?

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Slate

Society & Culture, Technology, History

4.6 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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As “deep fakes” have demonstrated, it’s getting easier and easier to swap an actor for a digital likeness—something that contributed to the Screen Actors Guild voting to authorize joining the writers on strike. Guest: Heather Tal Murphy, Slate writer covering tech, business, and A.I. Host: Lizzie O'Leary If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next TBD. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Check out AWS Insiders here: https://link.chtbl.com/awsinsiders?sid=podcast.whatnexttbd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I made you think you was real.
0:02.0	My name is Caden Sinclair.
0:04.0	Some people call us American royalty.
0:06.0	We were Liars.
0:08.0	A new series on Prime Video.
0:10.0	We were happy. We wanted for nothing.
0:12.0	Based on the best-selling novel.
0:15.0	Something terrible happened last summer,
0:17.0	and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.
0:20.0	No one in my family will tell me.
0:22.7	When you're left for dead, you want answers. We Will Liars. New series, watch now, only on Prime Video.
0:30.5	Hey guys, quick warning before we get started. There's a little bit of swearing in this episode.
0:36.1	Okay, here's the show.
0:42.2	Hi, I'm a proud member of Sagafra,
0:45.6	and I'm asking you to join me in voting yes on the strike authorization.
0:50.5	Last week, the Actors Union put out this video,
0:53.7	rallying their members to vote to authorize
0:56.1	a potential strike, which they did on June 5th.
0:59.6	The vote doesn't necessarily mean the actors will strike, like the Writers' Union currently is,
1:04.7	but it makes it possible if contract negotiations with the studios break down.
1:10.2	The current contract expires on June 30th.
1:13.4	And just like the Writers Guild, SAG AFRA is worried about wages, residual payments on streaming
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