Duncan Crabtree-Ireland urges lawmakers to extend AI bill's protections in perpetuity, calls deepfakes an 'existential threat'

April 30, 2024 3:12 p.m.

SAG-AFTRA Duncan Crabtree-Ireland exhorted the legislators has move Before with A AI Invoice which look for has provide historical protection against generative artificial intelligence.

“AI technology, LEFT unregulated, laid A existential threat not only has SAG-AFTRA members, but has civil speech, student health & well-being, democracy And national security," he said during her testimony has members of THE Senate Judicial Committee Subcommittee on Intellectual Property about THE NO FAKE Act (read he here).

In addition has demanding informed consent For digital replicas, THE bipartisan NO FAKE Act — Or THE To feed originals, To favor Art, And Keep Entertainment On Act — offers historical federal IP protections against THE diversion of voice And resemblance performance In her recordings And audio-visual works.

Artificial intelligence was A corner stone of SAG-AFTRA negotiations with THE Hollywood studios last year And A of THE collage points that guest THE actors union has go on strike For 148 days. As A result, SAG-AFTRA (along with THE WGA And THE DGA) secure provisions has protect their members Since THE to use of AI.

SAG-AFTRA Also negotiated AI protections In It is contract with THE registration industry, And he East while searching similar provisions In It is Interactive Media Agreement with THE video game businesses, However those talks are in progress.

However, Crabtree-Ireland argued Tuesday that federal regulation East necessary has fully protect THE the syndicate members, because they "can't control What others TO DO with AI generated digital replicas of them And can't with success request compensation For that use.

"For A artist, their voice And resemblance are THE foundation of their performance, brand, And identify, developed on time, through investment And hard work. Socket that voice And resemblance East A form of flight. He East certainly immoral And must be do illegal," he said.

Crabtree-Ireland Also argued For THE need of all people has be protected Since THE to use of digital replicas, using her own experience as A example, explaining that A deep fake video of himself appeared on THE the Internet last year exhorting SAG-AFTRA members No has ratify their new Three years contract.