has prompted the guild’s president Fran Drescher to describe AI as a “poison” that needs “barricades around it.”
55 percent of respondents to the Yahoo/YouGov poll support the actors’ and writers’ strike as they argue with major studios, cable networks, and streaming services. The poll is a boon for those on the picket line, particularly the writers who have been on strike for over 100 days.network, the poll means that almost 40 percent of respondents have no problem with actors being replaced by AI robot actors or with scripts being spat out of algorithms rather than the mind of a human.
“I’m a member of SAG, I’ve been out on the picket lines. These are human beings fighting for a living wage, fighting for working conditions that can possibly support a family, fighting for the ability to pay our bills with the art that we create that entertains the world and a huge percentage of people are like ‘whatever, if computers take it it’s fine,” says Gleib.