FrChazzz comments on ‘Logan’ Star Dafne Keen Says ‘I Was Offered Cocaine’ as an 11-Year-Old in Hollywood and Hugh Jackman ‘Made Sure No One Abused My Hours’ on Set

[+] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com -26 points 1 day ago* (9 children)

AI should just replace child actors. We've known for a while that child labor is bad in nearly every other industry but we "needed" it in film industry because there was no way around it. Now there is a way around it and no need to subject children to the exploitation of Hollywood.

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[–] MJKee9@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So instead of demanding better standards and culture around child actors, we should instead build more data centers to make AI children. Bad take my dude.

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[+] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com -7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Child labor is inherently exploitative. No matter what standards or culture you put around it children should not be working.

Even if every adult treats the child perfectly there's still psychological damage involved in being a child star. I'd rather a data center get built then have a child suffer from trauma.

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[–] FrChazzz@lemmus.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 child)

The data center causes pollution and also steals the water from MANY children. This is some galaxy-brain stuff.

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[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 day ago

We could save on water and pollution by using children for anything we already use machines for, that doesn't make it right.

Should we have children toiling in the mines because the mechanical drill uses too much water and emits pollution?