Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI

AI actors are inevitable. The economics are just too attractive to resist. And actor strikes can't/won't prevent it and might actually add motivation to speed up the process.

The wet dream of video producers/creators is an actor that will do, say and act exactly how they want without payment or royalties or demands of any kind. Obviously this is unlikely with a real actor but achievable with an AI character that the audience will accept as genuine.

AI characters are already starring in commercials in Japan. For example:

https://youtu.be/DEoG1NCdmdY

Bread on the table. That's it. Who could blame them, not me.