Hollywood Actors Begin Strike Today, Oppenheimer Stars Leave Premiere; First Strike Since 1980

@Daian: If I read the article correctly, I'm not thinking this is about money or lively hood. But, rather it's about AI likeness. The Actors are afraid of being replaced by AI. It's a valid concern, but I doubt it will play out to the benefit of any actor or studio.

@Daian: Wait, you ask for empathy from Gamespot readers?

Really?

and for what is worth, you are completely right. But, as you can see from the other comment here, stupidity rules here.

@Sushiglutton: You're trivializing the situation which is nowhere near that simple. You're imagining a bunch of rich people fighting over a fortune when this really is more about the 99% of people that work on your entertainment that aren't remotely wealthy and just want this business to remain sustainable for everyone instead of all the money going to studios while they struggle to make ends meet.

On top of that the most worrying problem they're trying to tackle is the usage of AI to replace real human workers which has already begun. If you consume entertainment in any way shape or form you should care because this will lead to everything being soulless garbage written and made by AI instead of actual human beings that can support their families working in this business.

@johndoe12345: I mean if you live in 'Murica you still have plenty of misinformation from your "news" outlets like Faux and Newsmaxx to tell you what to do and say. Don't worry! You still don't have to think for yourself!

@johndoe12345: If you think leftist actually care what Hollywood thinks then you have no idea what the left is. And what’s hilariously ironic is that you make this comment, yet you got this idea from right wing commentators, more than likely on YouTube or Twitter, because only right wing commentators spread this BS around.

So you literally get told what to think, and you just go along thinking it 🤣.

Just for future reference, here are things leftist (like actual leftist, not boomer democrats) don’t care about:

1. CNN and all their anchors.

2. Hollywood

3. MSNBC

4. Joe Biden

5. Kamala Harris

6. Mainstream Democrats in general

I would say that about 90% of the things you think leftist listen to or are into, is complete nonsense.

Side note: there’s a difference between liberals and leftist.

@Thuban_23: Problem is, it's not the BIG actors who suffer in these situations. It's the people working TV or streaming-only projects, not the big names, who are only going along in support of their guildmates. Like anything else, there's more to this than the public faces.

@Life-is-a-Game: well, that’s capitalism. Supply and demand. General normie audiences love their big name faces, which means their value goes up. Studios want to hire the actors people love, and those actors set terms.

Then you’ll say “well, just hire lesser known actors”. Sure. But then guess what? They do a great job, the normie masses love them, and guess what? The lesser known actor feels as if his/hers value has gone up and demands more money to be in future films. Because he’s not lesser known anymore. And the cycle continues.

We don’t live in antiquity or the Middle Ages anymore where actors were just peasant buskers off the side of the dirt road. Now we make movies and those movies are seen NG millions of people that fall in love with them.

It’s not so much a Hollywood issue, it’s more about not letting the masses idolize the actors, but as long as their acting in stories they love, it’s gonna be hard for them not to. I guess the media could stop covering the lives of actors and actresses but then people who love those actors will want to know about them, and the media is gonna cover what the people want to hear.

So yea, it’s not as easy of a solution as “just don’t pay them as much”.

@sippio: the actors aren’t striking for them sleeves, they’re striking in support of the writers that get fucked over by the Hollywood big wigs.

Why don’t you actually research a topic, at least the bare minimum of it, before you start calling people names?

@dushness: Already been done.

AI is far from new. It's just more in the news today than it has been in the past. People are completely clueless on what AI actually is. Most of the stuff on YouTube that touts being done by "AI" is actually barely done by AI at all. AI was used to script and possibly to refine, but there is still a TON of hard work needed to complete such videos. Including the original actor input. It's well known that the computer specialists used for movie making are often heavily overworked and underpaid. This strike is as much about fairness in the real work, as it is about replacement. AI needs to be used, but it needs to be used carefully. I support the writers and actors in their strike, not for pay but for fairness in the new technologies that will be increasingly used over time.

@matty_6666: I don't think you understand how unions work. It doesn't matter that this isn't about them, they need to respect the strike in support of the people who actually need this strike to obtain a sustainable career and stop AI from replacing real human workers.

Unions are about unity, it's kinda self-explanatory.

@matty_6666: Why shouldn't they support their peers in other parts of the industry? The top-tier movie stars only make up a tiny portion of the total acting pool, but their voice helps those people.

@illegal_peanut: Ding. On top of that, the people acting on some Netflix show aren't getting paid anywhere near what a Tom Cruise or Sylvester Stallone would be making on a film. They're doing this to help the writers, AND to help the other actors, because they know damn well that their pay comes off the shoulders of those who are paid less than them.

@Lord_Sesshy: This isn't about the stars. There are 160,000 people in SAG-AFTRA, and there aren't 160,000 stars. Most people in SAG are people you will never hear of, but that flesh out the casts of, well, everything. They're hard working people who mostly have second or third jobs just to do what they love because their love, which leads to our entertainment, can't pay the bills, let alone afford the luxurious lifestyle you mention. So yes, this isn't about the ones that get paid 100,000 because they are, trust me, the extreme minority. This is about the masses that keep things going.

@Lord_Sesshy: the actors are joining the writers to bring more attention to it. The writers are striking because some of them are making as low as just a few hundred dollars a week. Please know a bit more about what you're talking about before posting online for everyone to see.

@YukoAsho: The WB Discovery guy (Zaslav or something?) is worse. And he'll stick it out forever because most of the stuff on discovery isn't union. How much money does Guy Fieri make him, and Guy will be out there in all those Diners and Drive Ins and Dives during this strike.