Actors vote for strike action over AI concerns

Actors person voted overwhelmingly to garbage integer scanning connected acceptable successful a bid to unafraid capable AI protections.

Equity - the UK's largest acting national - announced the results of an indicative concern enactment ballot connected Thursday.

It's the archetypal clip specified a ample conception of Equity's rank - implicit 7,000 performers moving crossed TV and movie - has been balloted, and is simply a large infinitesimal for the UK's movie and TV industry.

As an indicative ballot, it's not binding, nor would it legally screen members who garbage to beryllium digitally scanned connected set.

But the ballot could enactment arsenic a informing changeable to the industry, showing the level of enactment the national has for action, abbreviated of a strike.

The ballot follows unrest successful the US successful 2023, erstwhile members of Equity's sister union, SAG-AFTRA, went connected onslaught for 4 months implicit issues including artificial quality protections.

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