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SAG-AFTRA ratifies studio deal requiring consent and pay for AI digital replicas

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Source: SAG-AFTRAAlso reported by SAG-AFTRA National Board release, NPR via KUNC

SAG-AFTRA members ratified the 2023 TV and theatrical contracts on 5 December 2023, with 78.33% in favour on a 38.15% turnout, after a 118-day strike from 14 July to 9 November. The deal, reached with the AMPTP on 8 November, requires informed consent and compensation for creating and using digital replicas of performers, living or dead, and is worth more than $1 billion in new pay and benefit funding.

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Studios using AI to replicate actors in the US had to get consent and pay for it, and the union carried these terms into later video game and TV talks.

When
5 Dec 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0120
Who
SAG-AFTRA, AMPTP; Fran Drescher, Duncan Crabtree-Ireland

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from SAG-AFTRA and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at SAG-AFTRA

Source copy: download the page as saved on 21 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0120: “SAG-AFTRA ratifies studio deal requiring consent and pay for AI digital replicas.” wheresthe.ai, 5 Dec 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-sag-aftra-contract-ai-2023-12/ (source: SAG-AFTRA).

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