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Writers want to regulate the usage of AI in their own negotiations with the studios
✏️ Just need somewhere to make this note about writers and AI. Adam Conover was talking about this in a video interview, but basically the concern isn’t that AI is going to replace writers. AI at this time can’t do it well enough. Sure, it’ll make some junk that might pass muster as low-level background watching, but the bigger stuff that people expect from shows and movies is still a human process for now. It has too many moving parts and too much feedback and editing and so on to be tangible for an AI to handle. The real issue is how the studios (i.e. capitalism) will use AI as a way to undermine writers’ wages and working conditions. They’ll tell writers, “hey the AI wrote this first draft, but it’s shitty. Please punch it up so it’s usable, oh and go talk to the director, the actors, go deal with set and post and so on. We’ll pay you a fraction of what you used to be paid before, and just a one-time thing, no residuals, no contracts, etc. Also you won’t be a writer, since the AI is the writer; you can be some low level producer that runs tasks.” 🔗 View Highlight