Hollywood Screenwriters Secure Historic Win After 148-Day Strike Against AI Use in Scriptwriting
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In one of the first serious labor disputes regarding generative AI in the workplace, Hollywood screenwriters won important safeguards against the use of artificial intelligence after a 148-day strike.
The employment of AI in script creation resonated more than any other subject during the nearly five-month protest. What was once a seemingly less important request of the Writers Guild of America evolved into a call to arms for existence.
The prospect of AI vividly portrayed the writers’ predicament as a human-versus-machine conflict, with broad ramifications for other businesses confronting a fundamentally different type of automation.
WGA members will decide in the coming weeks whether to ratify a tentative deal that compels studios and production companies to inform authors if any content sent to them has been partially or entirely generated by AI. No one can give AI writing credit. AI is unable to create new “literary material.” Writing produced by AI cannot be used as source material.
Artificial intelligence is not entirely forbidden by the provisional agreement between the Writers Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on behalf of the studios. Both parties concur that it can be a useful tool in a variety of facets of filmmaking, including scriptwriting.
The agreement specifies that writers may use AI with the company’s permission. However, a corporation cannot make a writer utilize AI tools.
The writers’ deliberations, which dragged on last week in part because of the difficulties of haggling over rapidly developing technology, hit a brick wall when it came to language about AI.
On May 2, just five months after OpenAI debuted ChatGPT, the AI chatbot that can write essays, hold intelligent conversations, and create stories from a few cues, the writers’ strike officially began. Studios argued that it was too early to discuss AI in these negotiations and that they would rather hold off until 2026.
In other news, SAG-AFTRA members unanimously decided to authorize a strike against video game corporations on Monday. Voice-over actors experience particularly severe concern around the employment of AI in gaming.
A lawsuit was launched last week against OpenAI by 17 authors, including John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, and George R.R. Martin, alleging “systematic theft on a massive scale” of their copyrighted works.
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