Hollywood writers have been penning science fiction stories about robots taking over the planet for decades. They are now striving to prevent robots from taking their jobs. The Writers Guild of America wants to limit the use of AI in creating film and television scripts. According to the guild, hollywood studios have rejected that notion, stating they would be open to discussing new technology once a year while attempting to make streaming services successful and dealing with declining ad income.

The studios' representative in the contract negotiations, the Alliance of Motion Picture and television Producers, declined to comment. Hollywood's screenwriters for motion pictures and television went on strike on Monday, the first such action in the industry in 15 years, as a result of a number of issues, including the AI debate.

The fight over AI's participation in the creative process will define the future of entertainment for decades to come, even though it is one of the final topics covered in a WGA summary of bargaining issues, many of which centre on enhancing compensation in the streaming era. The WGA negotiating committee member and screenwriter john August stated that writers had two reservations about AI. We don't want to be providing them with our content or editing their shoddy first draughts, he said.

A fast evolving, multidimensional technology that has swept through international business is in question. hollywood is using AI to sketch animated short films with the aid of OpenAI's Dall-E, which can produce realistic visuals, smooth out an actor's liberal use of f-bombs, and remove wrinkles from an actor's ageing face. Scriptwriting is a new endeavour for some writers.

"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 experience in visual effects and artificial intelligence and has provided consulting to a number of studios. "I'd contend that's just some kind of arbitrary idea people had that captured the general public's attention."

Seymour said that AI can aid authors in overcoming "the blank piece of paper phenomenon" and is adept at creating what he terms "pantomime," or stark, direct communication that lacks nuance. Seymour said, "I'm also not claiming that AI will become extremely brilliant and create, you know, 'Citizen Kane,' because it just isn't right.

Writers worry that they will be underutilised or at the very least ignored.
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G GOWTHAM

03/05/2023 01:18 PM