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Justine Bateman Profile picture
@JustineBateman
May 13, 2023 • 18 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
SAG ACTORS:
I want to talk about AI and how it will affect you.
I’m a former SAG Board Member and former SAG Negotiating Committee member.
I’m also WGA and DGA. 1/
As a coder and someone with a computer science degree I want to tell you where I believe AI is going. 2/
1. AI-written scrips & digitally-scanned actors (image and/or voice). Both already exist. Some talent agencies are actively recruiting their clients to be scanned. You choose the projects and get 75 cents on the dollar. 3/
Your digital image can be triple and quadruple booked, so that bodes well for a 10 percenter. 4/
2. Films customized for a viewer, based on their viewing history, which has been collected for many years. Actors will have the option to have their image “bought out” to be used in anything at all. 5/
3. Films “ordered up“ by the viewer. For example, “I want a film about a panda and a unicorn who save the world in a rocket ship. And put Bill Murray in it.” 6/
4. Viewers getting digitally scanned themselves, and paying extra to have themselves inserted in these custom films. 7/
5. Licensing deals made with studios so that viewers can order up older films like STAR WARS and put their face on Luke Skywalker‘s body and their ex-wife‘s face on Darth Vader‘s body, etc. 8/
6. Training an AI program on an older hits TV series, and creating an additional season. FAMILY TIES, for example, has 167 episodes. An AI program could easily be trained on this, and create an eighth season. We only shot seven. 9/
AI has to be addresses now or never. I believe this is the last time any labor action will be effective in our business. If we don’t make strong rules now, they simply won’t notice if we strike in three years, because at that point they won’t need us. 10/end
Addendum: Actors, you must have iron-clad protection against the AI use of your image and voice in the SAG MBA or your profession is finished. Demand it from @sagaftra and do not accept any AMPTP proposal that does not have it.
Needless to say, no @IATSE crew members, no @Teamster drivers, and no #DGA directors will be needed. At first these efforts will be run by software project managers, and eventually even they won’t be needed.
Here are some visual aids (and they are probably outdated):
instagram.com/reel/CqyD53pA1…
(Wrong tag for @Teamsters)
AI is being used to replace human expression for the sake of greed. The #WGA fight can become a template for other industries. I’ve heard of paralegals being replaced with ChatGPT at a legit law firm, & medical grad student being replaced by ChatGPT for medical research. 1a/
And the thing about #AI replacing the arts is that it will have a devastating effect on society. Talented artists are tubes through which God, or the universe or magic or whatever you want to call it, comes into society. It is profound. 2a/
You cut that off and you cut people off from the future of life. 3a/

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Nov 20
True. And yet that negative result will serve to break up what needs to be broken, so something else can emerge. Something magnificent is happening. I know it sounds counterintuitive. Yes, gen #AI is one of the worst ideas society has ever come up with. Yes it will destroy jobs, and more importantly crush people’s sense of self and worth. However, what was borne of greed will happen to give way to something very special, something truly new.
When a certain structure is inflexible and is not shifting as it should (the arts, education, etc), then it needs to be destroyed. There is sometimes no other way for the truly new and unique to emerge, as it’s meant to.
Both things can be true: gen #AI is bad for our society, AND ALSO gen AI’s destruction will finally clear the structures that were too stubborn to allow The New.
Since the spring of 2023, I’ve been telling people how gen AI is fueled by greed and how it will cause destruction. I have said this knowing I can’t stop it. I have said this so that people aren’t surprised by the tsunami of AI infiltration into our systems and institutions. I also say it to point fingers at those tech bros, studio execs, CEOs, etc who worship money for having disregarded any respect for human effort and worth.
But the real prize here is what comes after. #AI is the next chapter, but it is not the last chapter. And it’s not even a very interesting chapter, compared with The New that comes after that. The dystopian films and books you’ve read and watched were just “set-ups” and not conclusions. There is something remarkable coming. Set your sights beyond the destruction, on The New. Something real and raw and very human. Don’t focus on the mountain that seems to be in the way, but lift your POV, so you can see the land beyond it.
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Nov 15
#SocialMediaVideoCritique
- This one is a fresh piece.
- The actress is playing a bird who is crushed that "her family" (the birds who raised her) have left the nest.
- She takes this as an enormous rejection with "I'm (a) white (bird). I shouldn't be taking up space (in this nest)."
- We understand immediately that she has donned the beige cape of a Boreal or Elf owl to cover her white feathers and fit in. The actress' beige sweater neatly accomplishes this.
- The makeup department has done a great job in applying smudged black eye pencil under her eyes. We understand that the character tried to look more like a Boreal owl, by simulating their eye area markings.
- Cast pictures are below. Fin.
The "White Bird" Image
"Mom" Image
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Nov 8
#SocialMediaVideoCritique
- We again have that overhead light issue, but the director tries to counter that by putting a brimmed cap on the actor.
- Unfortunately, this causes a diffused light on the actor’s face. Better to turn off the overhead light and set a key light on 1/
-… the actor’s face.
- The footage is out of focus. We see the knit of the sweater in focus, but not our actor’s face. Be sure to rehearse beforehand to set focal distance.
- There are distracting objects in the background, one behind his head and one camera right. 2/
-… These pull the attention from the actor.
- The actor did not memorize his lines and we can see him reading from the cue cards. If this is necessary in your production, consider an earpiece through which the lines can be fed. Or shoot the scene in smaller, easy-to-memorize 3/
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Nov 8
Decompressing from walking on eggshells for the past four years.
I have found the last four years to be an almost intolerable period. A very un-American period in that any questioning, any opinions, any likes or dislikes were held up to a very limited list of “permitted positions” in order to assess acceptability. 2/
I’ve never in my life known that to be an American environment. It’s an environment I have encountered in smaller groupings (a church, a private club,a clique), but never before as a national blanket. It has been suffocating. Common sense was discarded, intellectual discussion 3/
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Nov 7
As a filmmaker, I want to point out the issues with these recently released projects. #SocialMediaVideoCritique
- The actress starts out 3/4 figure, but the she needs to lean over to have her 2-Ts shot in frame. Consider placing the camera higher, so she doesn’t have to 1/
-…make this effort.
- the dialogue is spoken at low volume and is difficult to hear. Perhaps the Director is adding the element of danger, and that there was someone in the house who might be dismayed by this scene. Or perhaps the location was not secured with permits, etc.. 2/
- If the former is true, we needed some indication of that. If the later was true, prep properly like we said.
- She adjusts her hair frequently and it breaks the focus of the scene. Even when working with a skeleton crew, 3/
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Nov 5
Are you paying attention? Do you see what is creeping along, seeping into our systems and institutions? See how Altman & other tech bros are planting this “#AI religion”? That their AI models are “god,” always with you, giving you “wisdom,” and 1/
Altman suggesting God is onboard with this plan to replace our relationship with Him with a relationship with #AI models instead. Watch closely. They will say things like this more and more, so they can suck the life out of you, emotionally, 2/
spiritually, intellectually, & (their ultimate goal) financially. First, it’s something to “help you,” then it’s “AI can do it better,” then it’s “we don’t need you,” then UBI & loss of purpose, then it’s loss of identity & agency. Don’t let them steal your life from you. 3/fin
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