Actors unclear on rights over their data and what it will be used for, as cast and crew alike fear for future of their roles

• Olivia Williams says actors need ‘nudity rider’-type controls for AI body scans

For performers on TV or movie sets, it is not unusual to receive a request to enter a booth filled with scores of cameras ready to capture their likeness from every possible angle. Yet with the cast and crew of productions already fretting over the coming role of AI in the industry, it is an increasingly troubling undertaking.

“It happens without warning,” says Olivia Williams, who adds she has been scanned more times than she cares to remember during a career that has spanned from The Sixth Sense to Dune: Prophecy.

Dune star says performers are regularly pressed to have bodies scanned on set with few rights over how data is used

• ‘Have we done ourselves out of a job?’: concerns in film and TV industry over on-set body scanning

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 has said, amid heightened concern over artificial intelligence’s impact on performers.

The star of Dune: Prophecy 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.