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Hollywood Writers on Strike Will Not Rest Until AI Is Stopped
Decrypt ^ | 6/02/23 | Jason Nelson

Posted on 06/02/2023 5:12:39 PM PDT by Libloather

The rise of generative AI, the buzziest thing in the tech world today, is also on the minds of TV and film writers as they try to reach a fair and equitable agreement to end the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike.

The dispute between the WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has entered its second month, and June gloom is setting in over Hollywood. Striking writers remain determined to have their voices heard and demands met, and one of the key sticking points is how AI tools potentially put creative jobs at risk.

"We understand it's not something we can walk away from," screenwriter and TV producer Josh Friedman told Decrypt on Thursday outside the historic Paramount Pictures lot in Los Angeles. "We're here."

The use of AI remains a critical factor in the WGA's negotiations. The WGA’s proposals include regulations on the use of AI for projects covered by the union's Minimum Basic Agreement (MBA), or the collective bargaining agreement that covers the benefits, rights, and protections for most of the work done by members.

The union proposed a regulation that AI cannot write or rewrite literary material for such projects and can’t be used as source material, plus MBA-covered material also can’t be used to train generative AI. The AMPTP rejected the proposal.

"Our concerns are very specific," Friedman said. The response from the AMPTP, Friedman said, was a promise to meet again once a year to discuss where the technology is at.

(Excerpt) Read more at decrypt.co ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Business/Economy; Local News; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: ai; donatedonaldtrump; donatefreerepublic; donatetrump; hollywood; strike; writers
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That's a shame.
1 posted on 06/02/2023 5:12:39 PM PDT by Libloather
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Buncha Luddites...


2 posted on 06/02/2023 5:15:30 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Now,everyone can be a screenwriter.......


3 posted on 06/02/2023 5:17:19 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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...or nobody. The results will be the same. Win-win.


4 posted on 06/02/2023 5:20:47 PM PDT by GingisK
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Look on the bright side. We’ll have less leftist garbage polluting our cinemas.


5 posted on 06/02/2023 5:20:51 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Libloather
Hey, AI is going to replace actors - writers are demanding the buggy whip factory be kept open just for them.

Since I haven't seen many actual stories out of this bunch in the last 25 years, they should be focusing on how AI can help them develop plots. :)

6 posted on 06/02/2023 5:21:27 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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Modern tv and movies have been such trash lately that a bot couldn’t do worse. Just have the executive have little fields they can input. How many POC? 3. How many scenes of girls beating up men? 5. How many subversions of the white male American Christian patriarchy? 7. How many cringey “bad ass” sub70 IQ jokes? 19! We got a blockbuster, no writers needed.


7 posted on 06/02/2023 5:22:08 PM PDT by Dragonspirit (CNN is the enemy. Ashli Babbitt is the hero.)
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To: Libloather

During the silent era, instead of title blocks in films, Japanese theaters used narrators who would explain what was going on in the film. The narrators were often as well known as the actors, and at one point they unionized. When talkies began coming into theaters, the narrators all went on strike, saying they wouldn’t return until movies became silent again. They’re still on strike.


8 posted on 06/02/2023 5:22:50 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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How many POC? 3. How many scenes of girls beating up men? 5. How many subversions of the white male American Christian patriarchy? 7. How many cringey “bad ass” sub70 IQ jokes? 19!

Have you optioned that script yet?

9 posted on 06/02/2023 5:23:26 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: Libloather

The genie is out of the bottle, Pandora’s Box is open, the cat is out of the bag, the toothpaste is out of the tube, the hay is in the barn. I’m as out of overused metaphors as the Hollywood writers.


10 posted on 06/02/2023 5:23:32 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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The problem is that the writers are already too much like AI.


11 posted on 06/02/2023 5:26:37 PM PDT by x
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No..Now we will have more..........People can now bang out 24 scripts a week every week for 12. months......


12 posted on 06/02/2023 5:27:20 PM PDT by Hambone 1934 (Dems love playing Nazis.....The republicans love helping them)
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To: Libloather

Couldn’t happen to a finer bunch. In other news, farriers and buggy whip makers are going on strike until these newfangled internal combustion engines are done away with.


13 posted on 06/02/2023 5:39:04 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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They have be shooting digital images of movie stars for years to use in the future, what makes the writers think that they are not next to be replaced…


14 posted on 06/02/2023 5:39:31 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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They have be shooting digital images of movie stars for years to use in the future, what makes the writers think that they are not next to be replaced…


15 posted on 06/02/2023 5:39:36 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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As a ghost writer, I’m reasonably sure ai + cheap paperback books=big$


16 posted on 06/02/2023 5:42:18 PM PDT by chief lee runamok (Anti Socialist Flâneur@Large)
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“They’re still on strike.”

holy heck that’s like going on a century now lol


17 posted on 06/02/2023 5:44:28 PM PDT by one guy in new jersey
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Look on the bright side. We’ll have less leftist garbage polluting our cinemas

I think most AI programming is liberal.

18 posted on 06/02/2023 5:44:28 PM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: chajin
When talkies began coming into theaters, the narrators all went on strike, saying they wouldn’t return until movies became silent again. They’re still on strike.

For some reason that reminded me of W. C. Fields scene with a dog in a bar. He does a ventriloquist trick to make the bartender think the dog can talk. The bartender convinces W.C. to sell him the dog. As W.C. walks out the dog declares he'll never talk again because he didn't want to be sold. W.C. tells the bartender the other thing about the dog is that it never lies. Classic...They could write back then...;O)

Poppy 1936 Pt1, WC Fields (YouTube, starts at 3:37)

19 posted on 06/02/2023 5:49:02 PM PDT by Bounced2X (Boomer - I survived childhood with no bike helmet.)
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Good luck with that. Sort of like house keeping headed to steerage with a bucket and mop after the Titanic was sinking.


20 posted on 06/02/2023 5:53:40 PM PDT by midwest_hiker
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