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Case chronology
Union opposes replacing actors’ labour with AI
Reporting reproduces the union’s response to Tesseract: AI can assist actors but should not replace their bodily, vocal and identity labour. Individual consent does not remove the need to discuss long-term professional impacts.
Akın Akınözü rebuts the union and says he will pursue legal avenues
Actor Akın Akınözü says he participated in every project stage, criticises the union for not consulting him, and says he will seek legal recourse over reputational harm.
Research question
Individual actors’ consent diverges from the union’s collective concerns about long-term employment; a unified anti-AI position cannot summarize the dispute.
Related documents
DOC-0070Actors’ union responds to TESSERACTDOC-0071Akın Akınözü responds to the actors’ unionSources
Cite this record
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. “Tesseract / Turkish actors’ union and digital-actor project dispute.” case-0050. Include this page’s URL and your access date when citing.