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I really think the energy being spent on this strike, specially the AI demands, really is a fools errand. Even if the studios in the USA agree to no AI, it does not mean the rest of the world won’t use AI either. They will and they will create so much content that Hollywood will be a thing of the past.
The irony of this strike is now…more than any other time in history, the power is with the individual not the studios. An individual writer today is on the precipice of being able to work with AI to write, create, edit and produce any story they wish to tell. They are the studio now that are able to do the work of massive teams of people in the past. It is the studios that are most at risk here as they suddenly will be competing with individuals and you better believe that there is going to be some truly amazing content in many more genres than we have ever seen. a flood of content is coming. Sort of like how YouTube exploded content from small to bigger creators that only massive studios were Making previously. Got a story you want to tell…now is the time to start paying attention to AI developments as it is happening whether the USA laws/strikes want it to or not.
If you are a writer, I urge you to start using AI and learn how to produce your own content as fighting the change is time not spent adapting.
The AI resistance just seems so goofy. I'm on the writers side here but can't agree with their AI assessment. It's not going to be blocked that's ridiculous.
To think that free global market will somehow be united and refuse clear efficiency is dumb. How would you even prove that AI wasn't used in my movie? How will this be enforced?
For a bunch of writers they sure fail to write out their own arguments huh
Reading the article it seems that they are not trying to block AI, they just want their fair share of the IP if their likeness is going to be used.
Seems completely reasonable to me. This shit is going to get weird if we declare that no one has the right to their own image. Imagine you get scanned and then all the sudden your face or one that looks almost exactly like it starts showing up in a bunch of pornos.
That doesn't make much sense either tbh. That's not how AI works. It literally learns from past experience so how do you attribute this? If I go to a louvre and with that inspiration paint a painting who do I attribute? It's impossible to determine "who's likeness was used".
Honestly I think this AI ignorance is why the writers/actor strike will fail.
Copyright maximalists is not the answer to the externalities if AI.