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WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes will blow Hollywood businesses and studio productions. Damn it!
And for the right reasons. The only ones that could be negatively affected are the other support jobs related to Hollywood productions.
Writers should at least get a fair share of the residuals (iirc residuals are profits from streaming services). South Park, late night shows, Daily Show, Mad TV, and SNL are few examples of how huge an impact a good writing team can have on a show, and I’m still only talking about comedy.
Imagine all of your favorite series’ going the route of GoT’s last season. That’s what will happen when you remove humanity out of the equation for writing a show. Though, tbf, the writers were still human, just were not perceptive enough at the consequences of rushing the storyline at the time of the last season.
I’m guessing all big production companies are going long on AI, thinking that although writing will be terrible, it will learn and improve in the future. At least, that is my (wild) speculation.
AI may be perfect but it ain’t human, and human is just how I like my shows to be.
They seem to really want to double down on AI. They apparently even thought that they should be allowed to scan filming extras and use their likeness for current and future projects, all for one day’s pay.
A-list actors might want to show solidarity on the side of the Writers’ Guild, because as soon as writing goes AI, it’s quite possible that so will they as actors. Iirc medyo murky pa ang legal stuff for deepfakes, so yeah.
Imagine, AI adapting Chris Nolan’s or Quentin Tarantino’s or Paul Thomas Anderson’s filmography. lol
Dude, these protests affecting my ghostwriting. Current AI tools can’t write and replicate emotions, man. Seeing the Apple TV’s “Ghosted” is evidently clear that no one was writing. These corporates want to make their contents as cheap as possible and dump them into streaming services.
eyes on Netflix, Disney and Prime Video
Main argument nung sa writer’s strike is that writers are not getting their rightful share of the profit. Moreso with the widespread plan to adopt AI to further reduce the perceived costs on hiring actual writers. Writers want AI out of the production. It’s affecting you now, but it’s going to make everything shitty in the next coming years if it’s not opposed. That includes the need to hire ghost writers.
This was discussed by my contacts a month before WGA strike begun. Until now, I can’t still reach them, either email or Teams.