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I'm still baffled by The Ankler's take on AI here. There's literally a PDF that shows the WGA's ask on this issue and the studios laughable counter: wga.org/uploadedfiles/m…
Also, this has been floating around for the last 24 hours: twitter.com/DiscussingF….
This isn't about computers making scripts on their own (yet), it's about the elimi…
I'm still baffled by The Ankler's take on AI here. There's literally a PDF that shows the WGA's ask on this issue and the studios laughable counter: https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/members/member_info/contract-2023/WGA_proposals.pdf
Also, this has been floating around for the last 24 hours: https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1654219728460849153?s=20.
This isn't about computers making scripts on their own (yet), it's about the elimination of writer jobs, writer steps on a job, and lowering writer pay thanks to AI: https://bobbymiller.substack.com/p/i-used-chatgpt-to-outline-a-movie
I dont know about a pdf but the asks Ive seen in the demands are either so vague as to be meaningless ("Calling for regulation":) or looking to put restrictions on something that we dont even know what it will be used for and how yet. That report you link to "Multiple studios are exploring" is frankly, ridiculous. "Multiple studios" is journalism-ese for someone, somewhere, people maybe mentioned something. Somehow mulitple studios never includes any specific studios. But no, they aren't "planning" to use AI to write scripts, and as noted on the podcast, you need to have at least one if not many more credited screenwriters on a movie, so what would they even do with that. Bottom line - no one has been able to give any credible examples that ive seen of how in any version of the future this might be use, and i dont know how you regulate something you cant explain the uses of.
Just confirming that you haven't read this WGA document, considering you...(checks notes) are covering a WGA strike:
https://www.wga.org/uploadedfiles/members/member_info/contract-2023/WGA_proposals.pdf
Since you can't be bothered, here it is:
"AI can’t write or rewrite literary material; can’t be used as source material; and
MBA-covered material can’t be used to train AI. "
Yes, I read it. and find it ridiculously vague and a big hammer for a future that they don't really have any vision for.
Okay. Agree to disagree.