{"id":221132,"date":"2025-10-17T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221132\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:22:07","slug":"olivia-williams-says-actors-need-nudity-rider-type-controls-for-ai-body-scans-artificial-intelligence-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/221132\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivia Williams says actors need \u2018nudity rider\u2019-type controls for AI body scans | Artificial intelligence (AI)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actors should have as much control over the data harvested from scans of their body as they do over nudity scenes, the actor Olivia Williams<\/a> has said, amid heightened concern over artificial intelligence\u2019s impact on performers.<\/p>\n

The star of Dune: Prophecy<\/a> and The Crown said she and other actors were regularly pressed to have their bodies scanned by banks of cameras while on set, with few guarantees about how the data would be used or where it would end up.<\/p>\n

\u201cA reasonable request would be to follow the precedent of the \u2018nudity rider\u2019,\u201d she said. \u201cThis footage can only be used in the action of that scene. It cannot be used in any other context at all, and when the scene has been edited it must be deleted on all formats.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams pointed to vague clauses in contracts that appeared to give studios wide-ranging rights over a performer\u2019s likeness \u201con all platforms now existing or yet to be devised throughout the universe in perpetuity\u201d.<\/p>\n

A renewed debate over the impact of artificial intelligence on actors has been prompted by widespread condemnation of the creation of an AI actor known as Tilly Norwood<\/a>. Actors fear the data could be used to train AI models on their likenesses or poses, paving the way for the technology to eventually take away work.<\/p>\n

Performing and supporting actors, as well as stunt performers and dancers, have told the Guardian they have been \u201cambushed\u201d into undertaking the body scans while on set. Several said they had no time to agree how the data produced would be treated, or whether it could be used to train AI models.<\/p>\n

Williams said she had tried and failed to have wide-ranging clauses removed from her contracts. She also investigated how to own her own body scan data to license it for limited use, but lawyers advised her the law was too unclear. Legal fees for her attempts to reclaim her data proved too high.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t necessarily want to be paid any more money for the use of my likeness,\u201d she said. \u201cI just don\u2019t want my likeness to appear in places where I haven\u2019t been, doing things I haven\u2019t done, saying things I haven\u2019t said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey make up the law as they go along and no one is stopping them \u2013 creating a precedent, reinforcing the precedent. I sign it, because if I don\u2019t, I lose the job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams said she was speaking out for the sake of young actors who faced little choice but to go through the scans, with few guarantees about what would happen to the data. \u201cI have known a 17-year-old who was persuaded into a scanner \u2013 and like the child-catcher scene in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, she obliged,\u201d she said. \u201cShe was a minor, so her chaperone had to give consent. Her chaperone was her grandmother, unaware of the law.\u201d<\/p>\n

The issue<\/a> is the subject of talks between Equity, the UK performing arts union, and Pact, the UK screen sector\u2019s trade body. \u201cWe\u2019re demanding that AI protections are mainstreamed in the major film and TV agreements to put consent and transparency at the heart of scanning on set,\u201d said Paul W Fleming, Equity\u2019s general secretary.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is within the industry\u2019s reach to implement basic minimum standards which would be a gamechanger for performers and artists working in UK TV and film.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pact said in a statement: \u201cProducers are well aware of their obligations under data protection law and these issues are being considered as part of the collective negotiations between Pact and Equity. As the negotiations are ongoing, we cannot comment in any detail.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actors should have as much control over the data harvested from scans of their body as they do…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-221132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}