A tentative agreement between the guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which has brought an end to the monthslong strike but still needs ratification by rank-and-file members, included terms stipulating that artificial intelligence cannot be used to write or rewrite literary material or to generate original source material.
There are still legal uncertainties around the use of a writer's content to train a chatbot. The agreement recognizes the uncertainty around whether and how writers’ work is protected by copyright law from being used to train AI models, but reserves the right of writers to assert that their work cannot be used to train AI.
AMPTP will still need to resolve SAG-AFTRA's objections to certain AI uses involving an actor's image. Studios wanted to make digital scans of extras and actors and keep them forever to use in the background of future films in exchange for a single day of pay, SAG-AFTRA National Executive Director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland claimed at a press conference in July.