Hollywood screenwriters are;seeking protections from AI;as part of their ongoing strike.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike continued into its fourth day as television and movie writers seek higher compensation, improved job security, and a;restriction on AI for scriptwriting.
- Among the WGA's demands is a proposal to regulate AI so it "can't write or rewrite literary material, can't be used as source material" and that writers' work "can't be used to train AI."
- The WGA's proposal was turned down by the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), which has instead offered to discuss AI advancement during yearly meetings.
- In a statement, the AMPTP acknowledged that AI "raises hard, important creative and legal questions for everyone."
- Under its current contract, AI-produced content can't be credited for writing or copyrighted, it said. The WGA contract also defines a writer as a "person."
- John August, a screenwriter behind "Big Fish" and others,;told CNN;that writers are worried about their scripts being fed into AI systems to generate new scripts and story ideas, taking over their jobs.
- "We don't want our material feeding [AI systems], and we also don't want to be fixing their sloppy first drafts," August said.
- Earlier this year, South Park's creators used ChatGPT to;co-write the episode;"Deep Learning," which focused on the chatbot.