Black Mirror: Actors and Hollywood battle over AI digital doubles

SAG-AFTRA president Fran Drescher (left) speaks with members of the media as she takes part in a rally by striking writers and actors outside Netflix studio in Los Angeles on Friday, July 14, 2023. This marks the first day actors formally joined the picket lines, more than two months after screenwriters began striking in their bid to get better pay and working conditions. Photo: AP

Like a plot from the anthology television series Black Mirror, the Screen Actors Guild says it is battling the studios for control over the digital replicas of performers that could be used "for the rest of eternity".

The studios counter that they have offered groundbreaking protections from misuse of images.