Then what are they worried about? If this is true then it is not a job threat to human actors.
But Pixar proved that it isn't true for their actors made of pixels, so why would it become true when the pixels are arranged with the help of AI?
I don't think it's as big as the media makes it out to be, but there's rumours that people are willing to send money to the company behind the character, if that hasn't happened already, which is of course triggering outrage.
[0] (For human actors) These are currently set at an initiation fee of $3,060, annual dues of $241.32 plus work dues of 1.575% of covered earnings up to $1M - https://www.sagaftra.org/membership-benefits/membership-cost...
Maybe that the industry is getting destroyed by greedy managers, before they figure out that it's harmful?
> But Pixar proved that it isn't true for their actors made of pixels, so why would it become true when the pixels are arranged with the help of AI?
Animated Characters are obviously fake, while still having real humans creating them. AI-Chars are somewhere in the uncanny valley, unreal, orchestrated.
Yes, I'm being facetious, the reality is that audiences will watch that stuff, just like audiences will use AI generated apps or listen to AI generated music, and SAG-AFTRA knows that.