Union prez Fran Drescher thinks Hollywood’s digital desires have no style or flair
    • bioemerl@kbin.social
      26·
      1 year ago

      There’s a difference between “no AI allowed” (not what the unions are calling for) and “contracts need stipulations about AI usage”

      If those contacts include paying actors as much as they would have needed to act and restricting it’s usage when writing scripts the difference is moot. If your erase all benefit to using AI it becomes worthless.

        • bioemerl@kbin.social
          11·
          1 year ago

          They 100 percent want to reduce AI usage so that writers can’t be automated away.

          Mr. August, a screenwriter for movies like “Charlie’s Angels” and “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” said that while artificial intelligence had taken a back seat to compensation in the Writers Guild negotiation, the union was making two key demands on the subject of automation.

          It wants to ensure that no literary material — scripts, treatments, outlines or even discrete scenes — can be written or rewritten by chatbots. “A terrible case of like, ‘Oh, I read through your scripts, I didn’t like the scene, so I had ChatGPT rewrite the scene’ — that’s the nightmare scenario,” Mr. August said.

          The guild also wants to ensure that studios can’t use chatbots to generate source material that is adapted to the screen by humans, the way they might adapt a novel or a magazine story.

          https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/29/business/media/writers-guild-hollywood-ai-chatgpt.html