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SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community (insider-gaming.com)

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SAG-AFTRA Approves AI Voice Actors, Enrages the VA Community::SAG-AFTRA has approved AI voice actors and partnered with Replica Studios, enraging the voice acting community on a global scale.

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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

This is a very unusual union, though. It's more like a chamber of commerce. A normal union represents employees who expect to work for years and decades in the same job and mainly rely on an hourly wage, right? IDK how many employees like that are in SAG-AFTRA.

Many people represented here function more like independent trade people. They take on specific jobs for a negotiated pay. The big names, mainly screen actors, function more like capital owners. They have fame and fans, which they rent out for money. By licensing their voices they can do exactly that. It gives them an additional source of income, without having to do extra work.

Basically, I want to say that you can't judge what's happening here in terms of Swedish union politics.