{"id":174548,"date":"2023-10-21T16:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-meta-and-ai-companies-recruited-striking-actors-to-train-ai"},"modified":"2023-10-21T16:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T21:23:57","slug":"how-meta-and-ai-companies-recruited-striking-actors-to-train-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/how-meta-and-ai-companies-recruited-striking-actors-to-train-ai","title":{"rendered":"How Meta and AI companies recruited striking actors to train AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-meta-and-ai-companies-recruited-striking-actors-to-train-ai2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hollywood actors are on strike over concerns about the use of AI, but for as little as $300, Meta and a company called Realeyes hired them to make avatars appear more human.<\/p>\n<p>One evening in early September, T, a 28-year-old actor who asked to be identified by his first initial, took his seat in a rented Hollywood studio space in front of three cameras, a director, and a producer for a somewhat unusual gig.<\/p>\n<p>The two-hour shoot produced footage that was not meant to be viewed by the public\u2014at least, not a human public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood actors are on strike over concerns about the use of AI, but for as little as $300, Meta and a company called Realeyes hired them to make avatars appear more human. One evening in early September, T, a 28-year-old actor who asked to be identified by his first initial, took his seat in a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}