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Animation Guild Faces Discontent on Artificial Intelligence Terms in New Contract
The Animation Guild explained to members why it could not ban artificial intelligence, as negotiators said the deal was the best they could get.
The deal also includes significant gains in other job categories, such a provision establishing “pay equity” for color designers, a traditionally female-dominated craft. “We could not propose that GenAI simply be banned from use in signatory studios not only because the Producers would never have agreed to that, but because it would also result in the work being sent to non-union workers, without the protection or benefits of a Collective Bargaining Agreement,” the union stated. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of the studios, has reached agreements on AI over the last year with unions representing directors, writers, actors, musicians and below-the-line craftspeople.
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