The advent of AI stirs a pot of controversy: with creatives like writers and actors locking horns with industry titans such as Disney, Netflix, and the newly formed Warner Bros. Discovery.

The crux of the dispute?
Two key issues: equitable remuneration in the age of streaming and the rather dystopian practice of studios scanning performers for a day, only to have their digital doppelgängers in future projects. Why WGA and SAG AFTRA are fighting the good fight for all. This scenario is indeed the stark reality for actors in this tech-driven epoch. Just ask Alexandria Rubalcaba of WandaVision fame.

Rubalcaba, a WandaVision cast member, has publicly decried Disney's unauthorized scanning of herself this week on NPR. She was part of a cohort of background actors on the show who allege that Disney digitally replicated their physical attributes without their consent.

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