Actors' strike looms as union looks for protections against AI

Actors strike looms as studios and union remain at odds

HOLLYWOOD (KDKA) - If the actors' union and the major studios and streaming services do not reach a deal by midnight, a strike could be on the horizon.

The union is looking for protections from artificial intelligence being used to create characters using actors' voices or likenesses.

With the writer's guild already on strike, an actors' strike would bring most remaining productions to a halt.

Meanwhile, one studio executive told Deadline Hollywood, "The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses," and called that line of thinking "a cruel but necessary evil."

The last time there was an actors' strike was in 1980.

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Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.