As the 5,000-strong Animation Guild starts negotiations with studios, outsourcing jobs and AI are the major points of contention. Jeffrey Katzenberg, the co-founder of DreamWorks and former chairman of Walt Disney Studios, has predicted that generative AI could eradicate 90 percent of animation artist jobs. The word that some negotiators at the union are using to describe this moment is “existential.”
Source: As AI Encroaches on Hollywood, Animators Say This Is An Existential Moment