SAG-AFTRA backs Trump AI framework in uncommon supportive assertion

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The Display Actors Guild–American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) launched a press release in assist of the Trump administration's AI policy framework on Thursday.

"SAG-AFTRA welcomes the administration’s Nationwide Coverage Framework for Synthetic Intelligence and its recognition that America’s management in AI should go hand in hand with sturdy protections for human creativity," the union mentioned in a press release to TheWrap . "Our members’ performances, voices and likenesses aren't uncooked materials for use with out consent; they're the product of human expertise and labor, they usually deserve safety."

The White House released the nationwide AI legislative framework designed to assist innovation whereas defending Individuals final week. The plan laid the groundwork for a nationwide coverage moderately than state-by-state legal guidelines to navigate the rising synthetic intelligence trade and its influence on mental property rights, free speech and American communities.

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SAG-AFTRA supported the Trump administration's framework for nationwide AI coverage. (Getty Photos)

The Hollywood actors' union praised the framework's suggestion to permit courts to resolve ongoing points concerning potential copyright infringement in addition to the concept "staff should share in the advantages of AI."

"[W]e additionally imagine that free-market licensing should proceed to thrive, mixed with SAG-AFTRA’s capacity to collectively discount for applicable licensing phrases and honest income shares," the assertion mentioned.

SAG-AFTRA additionally agreed with the Trump administration that Congress must move laws to make sure authorized protections not but in place.

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The Trump administration launched a coverage framework for synthetic intelligence final week. (iStock / iStock)

"[W]e strongly assist the framework’s name for Congress to move federal laws in opposition to digital duplicate abuse whereas sustaining sturdy First Modification safeguards," the assertion concluded. "People want management in a world awash with digital clones, however that management can't hurt the liberty of expression our trade depends upon to entertain and inform the world. Congress ought to transfer swiftly to enact the bipartisan NO FAKES Act."

Fox News Digital reached out to SAG-AFTRA and the White Home for remark.

SAG-AFTRA has lengthy advocated for safeguards surrounding AI replication of actors' faces and voices, notably after actress Scarlett Johansson accused OpenAI of imitating her voice with out her permission in a 2024 chatbot.

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The union additionally beforehand supported the NO FAKES Act in 2024 , which aimed to "maintain people or firms liable for damages for producing, internet hosting, or sharing a digital duplicate of a person performing in an audiovisual work, picture, or sound recording that the person by no means truly appeared in or in any other case permitted – together with digital replicas created by generative synthetic intelligence (AI)."

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The No Fakes Act was reintroduced in 2025, although no motion has been taken on the invoice but.

Lindsay Kornick is an affiliate editor for Fox Information Digital. Story ideas will be despatched to lindsay.kornick@fox.com and on Twitter: @lmkornick.