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'just goulish'

Darcy Jimenez
Darcy Jimenez via bbc.co.uk
Netflix Touts $900,000 AI Jobs Amid Hollywood Strikes
The job posting amid a strike partly driven by AI fears triggers an angry reaction from actors.
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Streaming service Netflix has listed a job ad for an AI product manager on $900,000 a year, sparking anger from Hollywood actors and writers currently striking to protect their livelihoods from AI and other threats.

Key Details

  • Actor Rob Delaney told The Intercept: "So $900k/yr per soldier in their godless AI army when that amount of earnings could qualify thirty-five actors and their families for SAG-AFTRA health insurance is just ghoulish."

Comments

  1. cmdred 2 months ago

    well paid? over 80% of actors in SAG make less than the $26k a year thats needed to qualify for SA health insurance. And the current proposal from the production companies is that if you are a
    background actor (you get about $1-300 a day) they can scan your likeness and use it anyway they want, FOREVER. The actors and writers aren't striking for million dollar salaries. They're striking to be able to receive fair compensation so they can pay the rent and get health insurance.

  2. allen morgan 2 months ago

    The strikers forget a business is not there to provide livlihoods for people. It exists to make money (ie. profit after expenses)...just like the writers work to make money to survive too. And if AI does that then so be it...writers have to show "it a'nt so" or not as much. What they need is a "John Henry" moment.

  3. K J 2 months ago

    Adapt or die. While these well paid people strike, making themselves less valuable, progress marches forward.

    1. cmdred 2 months ago

      well paid? over 80% of actors in SAG make less than the $26k a year thats needed to qualify for SA health insurance. And the current proposal from the production companies is that if you are a
      background actor (you get about $1-300 a day) they can scan your likeness and use it anyway they want, FOREVER. The actors and writers aren't striking for million dollar salaries. They're striking to be able to receive fair compensation so they can pay the rent and get health insurance.

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