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Storyboard Supervisor/Storyboard Artist Ⓥ . 🩷💜💙 . she/her Cara @onorobo

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I urge anyone in animation who can vote, to VOTE NO! In the agreement there are:

 No protections against studios training models on your art, No opt outs to working with AI, No limits to the portion of a production that can be produced by AI, No guardrails on how many jobs can be gutted in favor of AI Several things are being pitched as protections for artists which may in fact be wolves in sheep’s clothing: One portion of the agreement says that if an employee is displaced by AI, the employer has to either give displacement pay or sponsor job training, which sounds great at first, but the agreement says that ‘sponsored training’ can be simply teaching an artist how to use generative AI. There cannot be an either/or option if one of the choices is having a displaced artist download Midjourney and calling it a day. An additional clause will allow someone to get full credit/pay for producing work that includes AI, but because there is no cap on the portion of that work, it’s not a protection for artists, it’s a protection for prompt generators, plagiarizers, and companies who don’t want to say they use AI. While there are commendable portions of the agreement, if you let AI dissolve your junior and mid-level roles now, in 10 years you won’t have a well-trained body of senior staff, you won’t have a union, and you won’t have bargaining power in the future! Being weak on AI now will make all subsequent negotiations harder down the line.