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

      • hoodatninja@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        They 100 percent want to reduce AI usage

        Yes I agree. That is what I’ve been saying this entire time.

        I don’t see the problem. Want to use AI to fart out cheap written content or highjack someone’s script? Don’t use the studio system. It’s never been easier to shoot and distribute without Hollywood/unions.

        Either way, AI isn’t banned from Hollywood. They are calling for regulation on specific use cases involving union writers.