Call it the Tilly tax. In the future, studios that use synthetic actors in place of humans might have to pay a royalty into a union fund. That's one of the ideas kicking around as SAG-AFTRA prepares to sit down with the studios on Feb. 9. Artificial intelligence was central to the 2023 actors strike, [...]
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Unable to Stop AI, SAG-AFTRA Mulls a Studio Tax on Digital Performers
January 29, 2026
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