# Writers Strike - AI demands unlikely to succeed

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**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 10:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-strike-ai-demands-unlikely-to-succeed/984263 "2023-05-19T10:34:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-strike-ai-demands-unlikely-to-succeed/984263/11 "2023-05-19T11:12:03Z")

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This got discussed quite a bit in this thread (which I admit I checked out of while the discussion was still going on):

> [@Writers Guild of America goes on strike (5/2/23) tentative deal (9/25/23) Now accepted (10/9/23)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/writers-guild-of-america-goes-on-strike-5-2-23/983448):
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> The Writers Guild of America has gone on strike as of midnight, and it’s expected that late-night shows will be the first to be affected. Episodic television is written out several weeks to a few months in advance. [https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/hollywood-writers-studios-stage-last-minute-talks-strike-deadline-looms-2023-05-01/](https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/hollywood-writers-studios-stage-last-minute-talks-strike-deadline-looms-2023-05-01/) I’m curious as to whether professional wrestling writers are part of the strike. They’re not, right?

Note that the writers apparently have two concerns about AI:

- “studios … using AI to generate new scripts from writers’ previous work”
- writers being “asked to rewrite draft scripts created by AI”

The latter doesn’t seem inherently wrong to me. But if the writers want to try to use their collective bargaining power to exclude certain duties from their job description, I guess they can try?

The former has a little more weight IMHO. I’ve heard of visual artists complaining that art-generating AI has been “trained” on their work and produces results that essentially rips off their style and elements of their work. And it seems to me that they have a legitimate beef, and that writers’ fear that something like this could happen to them is likewise legitimate.

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