…I said “how streaming has impacted income”, which is what is relevant here. Since the advent of streaming, writers are earning less. Many can’t pay rent. The writer for “The Bear” had a negative bank account and a bow-tie bought on credit when he recieved the WGA award for Best Comedy. Most writers are on poverty wages. Seasons have gone from 20 episodes to 10, and they are getting paid for 10, but the workload remains the same.
It’s a shit show. And the studios want it to be even worse.
How do you know what value you bring to the company if the company keeps that information secret? There is no reason why the studios should be hiding that information.
It had nothing to do with “the media buzzword.” What the WGA asked for was very specific.
Regulate the use of artificial intelligence on MBA covered projects
AI can’t write or rewrite literary material
AI can’t be used as source material
MBA covered material can’t be used to train AI.
These aren’t things “coming down the line.” These are things that are happening right now, which is why it was included in the negotiations. This isn’t a copyright issue. It’s a genuine threat to both jobs and intellectual property.
People have tried, and no ChatGPT can’t write a decent script, but “writing a decent script” isn’t the pressing concern.
I’ll point to my example of the Leftovers script in the other AI thread. (Spoilers for the Leftovers finale, CW suicide) The resolution of that story-arc is simply something that an AI would be capable of. Not if the “writers room” is being driven by editors cleaning up AI drafts.