With Voting Underway, SAG-AFTRA Releases Its Full Draft Contract

At the start of November, draft for the general public to go through in its full, 128-page glory.

WatchWho’s This Thing Actually for? | PlayStation Portal Hands On CCShare SubtitlesOffEnglish Justine Bateman and Matthew Modine have made their concerns over this agreement’s handling of the technology known, going so far as to urge their fellow members to vote “no.”14 percent of SAG-AFTRA voted against the deal’s approval, and several voice actors (like Street Fighter 6's Anairis Quiñones and Voltron’s Josh Keaton) have noted the union may be underestimating where generative AI will end up in the next few years, and how it’ll impact the voice acting industry in particular. Studios and the AMPTP are basically asking the actors to trust them, but Bateman outlined on Twitter in an extensive thread how that trust would ultimately be misplaced. AdvertisementOver the past week, SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher and negotiation president Duncan Crabtree-Ireland have tried to assuage members that it did the best it could regarding AI. They both pushed back those who claimed they settled with studios, with Crabtree-Ireland arguing that they felt the union hit “peak leverage” after locking down those AI points. And in the message sent to members alongside the voting card, Crabtree-Ireland said the provisions made help “establish lengthy and detailed AI guardrails that didn’t exist before and do protect you as we meet the challenge of this new technology.”AdvertisementSAG-AFTRA has until December 5 to vote on the tentative agreement, and should it go through, will run through June 30, 2026. You can read it all here. Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest

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