Striking Hollywood screenwriters are demanding restrictions on AI use, including preventing AI from writing or rewriting scripts and using writers' work to train AI.
As the strike by movie and TV writers for better compensation and job security drags on, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) is pushing for safeguards to curb the use of AI in scriptwriting.
- Screenwriters fear AI could take over their jobs by generating new scripts and ideas from their existing material.
- The WGA has proposed allowing AI in scriptwriting as long as it doesn't affect writers' credits or money earned.
- While the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) rejected the WGA's proposal, it acknowledged that AI raises important creative and legal questions.
- The WGA contract currently defines a writer as a "person." Under the contract, AI-produced content can't be credited for writing or copyrighting.
- Earlier this year, South Park creators used ChatGPT to co-write an episode.
