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Psychological Warfare and the Fake SAG Contract Clauses
from Through The Gate | The Tim Dillon Show #369 · #369
6 min
Tim describes the AMPTP's alleged strategy of psychological warfare against actors and the fight over AI likeness rights, then launches into a fabricated list of absurd new SAG contract deal points, including a temporary ban on Filipino actors.
- AMPTP planned psychological warfare by timing their final SAG offer right before the holidays to depress the industry during the strike.
- Tim claims studio executives asked him for advice on breaking down actors mentally and he suggested the holiday timing tactic.
- Studios wanted to use AI to replace actors entirely, digitize dead performers, and eliminate the need to hire new talent.
- The entertainment business is in its final chapter before becoming purely a tech business, since everything that can be digitized will be.
- Studio logic: get rid of actors who want money and commit sexual assault, use dead or digitized likenesses instead, and eliminate writers too.
- The glory days of cinema are dead and the money is gone; studios are cutting costs to prepare for massive industry change.
- AI isn't good enough yet to actually replace everyone, so studios had to negotiate and the three-year SAG contract reflects that reality.
- One deal clause bans Filipinos from films for twelve months to give audiences time to adjust since they're suddenly everywhere now.
Fran DrescherSAGTom HanksAMPTPartificial intelligence in entertainmentKara Swisher