A note to all creatives:

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

*that’s not even how it ends that’s a statistically likely and creatively boring way for it to end. Why would you even want to read that.

A lot of you have been asking how you can help the WGA and SAG members on strike and the other crew who are out of a job until shooting starts again. Here's a link to ways to help.

WGA: "You came."

SAG-AFTRA: "You called."

i genuinely dont care if the creation of all media comes to a screeching halt btw i will very gladly live with no new movies no new tv shows no new anything for years if that's what it takes for the people who create them to be treated like human beings. i hope every other facet of the entertainment industry goes on strike too and i hope all the ones that havent unionised yet will. i want media creation to become completely impossible and i want the people who could make it possible again to hold out until they get every single thing they want. btw

I hope the cgi/vfx artists join the strike. Hell I hope the rest of the tech and support teams like sound engineers and prop and costume makers get involved and get better deals. Grind every part of the industry to a holt until those fuckers pay up

Hollywood over. All artist make indie-produced Yuri now, sorry.

In light of recent events

Behold

i am so tired of this. we are so tired of this. between Bob Iger's garbage comments,that one executive straight out sayin they'll wait out the strikes till people start losin their homes an now this. how long do they think they can keep treating the creatives they get rich off while doin nothin themselves like this? till when will they do an say whatever they want an keep gettin away with it? not long now.. not long. not anymore.

also Karla Ortiz keeps kickin butt❤

here's a link to the Have I Been Trained website for you to click

ALSO! use Glaze to protect the images of your work you post!

here's a link to that as well for you

it basically creates a protective layer on the image that prevents AI from stealin it. Very important. all the info is on the site.

Fuck AI, fuck the film industry, and fuck capitalism. Pay the damn workers.

I know everyone has already talked about the strike, but as someone who works in the industry and who’s livelihood is directly impacted, I wanted to throw in my two cents.

Yes, my job is impacted right now. But it would be far more impacted if the studio execs get their way.

They’re trying to make writers and actors obsolete. Effects artists and costumers are absolutely next on the chopping block.

Support the strike. We’re fighting for the soul of our art right now.

Asking for a friend …

Anyone arguing that we wont have anything to watch because of the strikes has lost their mind. I am overwhelmed on a daily basis by the options for entertainment available to me. I am eager for a slow down of entertainment so I can finally sit down and watch things on my own schedule, and I strongly believe that if the strikes are successful then we will have better paid writers and actors dedicating more time and energy on one high quality project rather than 100 mediocre ones.

I hope all the strikes going on right now lead to a general strike or something like it because that is the only way we're going to get ANYTHING like a livable wage etc. across all industries. The only thing these rich assholes listen to is a complete stoppage of the economy.

Before anyone thinks that the SAG-AFTRA should have accepted the deal that included “a groundbreaking AI proposal that protects actors’ digital likenesses, and more” I would like you to read this quote from the chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland

“They propose that our background performers should be able to be scanned, get paid for one day's pay, and their company should own that scan of their image, their likeness, and should be able to use it for the rest of eternity. If you think that's a ground-breaking proposal, I suggest you think again.”

And a comment from the AMPTP (the studios)

“The union has regrettably chosen a path that will lead to financial hardship for countless thousands of people who depend on the industry”

Both quotes are from this BBC article.

The same group of people saying that the strike will cause financial hardships for thousands of people is suggesting they get a single days pay for getting digitally scanned. Afterwards said scan will be used to do the work the actor should be getting paid for.

Now is a great time for everyone to strike.

as the strikes wear on, let’s gaslight the studios into a third theatrical release of Morbius (2022)