Striking Hollywood scribes ponder AI in the writer's room
1 year, 7 months ago

Striking Hollywood scribes ponder AI in the writer's room

NPR  

Striking Hollywood scribes ponder AI in the writer's room Striking Hollywood scribes ponder AI in the writer's room 7:00 Enlarge this image toggle caption Mandalit del Barco/NPR News Mandalit del Barco/NPR News Hollywood writers are on their third week of a strike against major studios. Enlarge this image toggle caption Mandalit del Barco/NPR News Mandalit del Barco/NPR News This week, a small plane circled over the major Hollywood studios where writers were picketing. And in video promotion for their show, co-creators Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof ran the Mrs. Davis premise through what's called an "AI visualizer program." "I'm using it as a brainstorming tool and as a research aide," says TV writer Matt Nix, who tested several AI programs to give him episode ideas for his show True Lies.

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AI is supposed to be Hollywood’s next big thing. What’s taking so long?
2 months, 1 week ago

AI is supposed to be Hollywood’s next big thing. What’s taking so long?

LA Times  

Earlier this year, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence companies wooed Hollywood studios with the futuristic promise of AI tools that they said could help make the business of creating movies and television shows faster, easier and cheaper. Plus, AI is highly controversial in the entertainment industry, where there’s widespread mistrust of the technology companies given their more “Wild West” attitude …

‘Get to know your enemy.’ How Hollywood workers are learning to use AI
3 months, 3 weeks ago

‘Get to know your enemy.’ How Hollywood workers are learning to use AI

LA Times  

While working as a cinematographer on the second season of “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” in April 2022, Benji Bakshi pondered a compelling question: How would natural light interact with the snowy landscape of a fictional planet under a magenta sky? “It’s natural to see something new and to feel a sense of fear,” said Caleb Ward, co-founder and chief …

These filmmakers use AI. And they’re not ashamed to admit it
1 year, 1 month ago

These filmmakers use AI. And they’re not ashamed to admit it

LA Times  

Blazers brushed up against streetwear. “Tonight you’re gonna hear a lot about AI,” said Mike Gioia — one of the event’s organizers and a co-founder of the AI workflow startup Pickaxe — during his introductory remarks. And for anybody who’s a filmmaker in L.A., the reality that you deal with is there are just so many hoops you have to …

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)
1 year, 2 months ago

In Hollywood writers’ battle against AI, humans win (for now)

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — After a 148-day strike, Hollywood screenwriters secured significant guardrails against the use of artificial intelligence in one of the first major labor battles over generative AI in the workplace. “I hope it will be a model for a lot of other content-creation industries,” said Tom Davenport, a professor of information technology at Babson College and author of …

Column: The writers’ strike was the first workplace battle between humans and AI. The humans won
1 year, 2 months ago

Column: The writers’ strike was the first workplace battle between humans and AI. The humans won

LA Times  

After studios flatly refused to agree not to produce AI-generated scripts, members of the Writers Guild of America realized the danger and drew a line in the sand. And though there are many reasons that the union ultimately won out — smart organizing and a memeable picket line, strong allyship from SAG-AFTRA, and tactical blunders by the studio execs among …

AI is the wild card in Hollywood’s strikes. Here’s an explanation of its unsettling role
1 year, 5 months ago

AI is the wild card in Hollywood’s strikes. Here’s an explanation of its unsettling role

Associated Press  

LOS ANGELES — Artificial intelligence has surged to the forefront of Hollywood’s labor fights. In a description widely shared by outraged actors on social media, SAG-AFTRA released this characterization of the studios’ AI position, which the AMPTP called a deliberate distortion: “We want to be able to scan a background performer’s image, pay them for a half a day’s labor, …

Hollywood AI backlash: What striking writers and actors fear about tech replacing roles
1 year, 5 months ago

Hollywood AI backlash: What striking writers and actors fear about tech replacing roles

The Independent  

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. During a press conference on Thursday, Crabtree-Ireland alleged that a proposal …

Striking movie and TV writers worry that they will be replaced by AI
1 year, 7 months ago

Striking movie and TV writers worry that they will be replaced by AI

NPR  

Striking movie and TV writers worry that they will be replaced by AI One sticking point in the Hollywood writers strike is the use of artificial intelligence. NPR's Mandalit del Barco reports on what worries screenwriters about a possible future with AI in the writer's room and on the perhaps surprising ways some writers are embracing the technology. DEL BARCO: …

AI has striking writers freaked out. Can Hollywood avoid nightmare scenarios?
1 year, 7 months ago

AI has striking writers freaked out. Can Hollywood avoid nightmare scenarios?

LA Times  

Welcome to the Wide Shot, a newsletter about the business of entertainment. You just have to kind of turn your head a little bit to say, “It’s going to be a different way in which we monetize our assets.” So if someone wants to write an outline of a horror novel that is basically using all the collected works of …

How AI factors into Hollywood writers strike
1 year, 7 months ago

How AI factors into Hollywood writers strike

Al Jazeera  

The Take examines why US writers in Hollywood want AI to be regulated. TV and film writers in the US – 11,500 of them – have walked off their jobs for the first time in 15 years. The Writers Guild wants to put regulations on artificial intelligence into their members’ contract, and they say the studios have turned them down …

Hollywood’s Screenwriters Are Right to Fear AI
1 year, 7 months ago

Hollywood’s Screenwriters Are Right to Fear AI

Wired  

One of the more harrowing reads for writers concerned about artificial intelligence encroaching on their livelihoods is a study commissioned by OpenAI itself. When WGA members began their picket on May 2, the first such strike in 15 years, focus was on streaming services’ impact on Hollywood and how the residuals paid to writers for streaming projects hadn’t kept pace …

Will AI write the next Hollywood blockbuster? Writers' strike intensifies over studios' refusal to regulate use of AI
1 year, 7 months ago

Will AI write the next Hollywood blockbuster? Writers' strike intensifies over studios' refusal to regulate use of AI

Hindustan Times  

The Hollywood writers' strike over pay has taken a new turn, with the Writers Guild of America intensifying its action due to the studios' refusal to rule out the possibility of artificial intelligence replacing human writers in the future. People picket outside of Paramount Pictures studios during the Hollywood writers strike on May 4, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. WGA's …

Could AI pen ‘Casablanca’? Screenwriters take aim at ChatGPT
1 year, 7 months ago

Could AI pen ‘Casablanca’? Screenwriters take aim at ChatGPT

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — When Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, was recently extolling the capabilities of artificial intelligence, he turned to “Game of Thrones.” Imagine, he said, if you could use AI to rewrite the ending of that not-so-popular finale. “We’re not totally against AI,” says Michael Winship, president of the WGA East and a news …

'Plagiarism machines': Hollywood writers and studios battle over the future of AI
1 year, 7 months ago

'Plagiarism machines': Hollywood writers and studios battle over the future of AI

The Hindu  

Hollywood writers have for decades penned sci-fi scripts featuring machines taking over the world. “Last Bastion” "The problem here seems to be that we thought that creativity, per se, was the last bastion, the line in the sand, that would stop machines from replacing someone's job," said Mike Seymour, co-founder of Motus Lab at the University of Sydney, who has …

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