SAG-AFTRA’s use of an AI image to help promote its upcoming Labor Innovation & Technology Summit has drawn the ire of at least one noted artist who believes it took away jobs from humans.
The illustration features a woman looking into the face of an AI robot, which rattled Karla Ortiz, whose credits include Black Panther, Avengers: Endgame and Avengers: Infinity War.
Ortiz pointed out in a tweet that there are “fellow visual unions and locals that are negotiating this coming year. This weakens their efforts.” The argument is that the illustration takes away the job of a graphic artist and a union model. @sagaftra advertising a worker focused summit with exploitative generative AI is deeply shameful.
The summit is also co-sponsored by @IATSE. Does this mean visual workers, whom IATSE represents, are ok to exploit & replace?
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