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I would be curious how an AI job in this case would help with the strike breaking. Actors still arguably own their likeness, and it’s legally dubious to use an actors likeness to oust them from a position they would otherwise occupy, but I think it would be very hard to prove in court. I think the real money would be in hiring a legal team robust enough to define this.

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There's no need to use the likeness of current actors.

Actors need a unique combination of assets: they need to have the right looks, the right voice and the right skills. That makes them expensive.

But with AI, we can combine one person's likeness with another person's voice and another person's acting, and use this to create new virtual actors.

Finding someone who merely looks good and is willing to sell their likeness will not be hard. Even that might not be necessary, since AI will soon be able to generate photorealistic human models that aren't based on anyone in particular.

It's new territory, and if it plays out in Netflix's disfavor, Netflix can still use AI to generate characters not based on existing actors' likenesses.

Additionally, AI could always be more improved for the script-writing use case.

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