Debbie says that the writers just pushed their replacement forward by 5 years.


GPT-4 Can't Replace Striking TV Writers, But Studios Are Going to Try

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkap3m/gpt-4-cant-replace-striking-tv-writers-but-studios-are-going-to-try

AI, the WGA Strike, and What Luddites Got Right | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/wga-strike-artificial-intelligence-luddites/

AI voice synthesising is being hailed as the future of video games – but at what cost?  | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/14/ai-voice-synthesising-is-being-hailed-as-the-future-of-video-games-but-at-what-cost

AI replacing voice actors for audiobooks

https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/13j6s11/ai_replacing_voice_actors_for_audiobooks/

Why Hollywood Really Fears Generative AI | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/hollywood-actors-artificial-intelligence-performance/

>Hollywood

Old Hollywood is screwed....

Maybe showing off an AI-generated fake TV episode during a writers' strike is a bad idea | TechCrunch

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/maybe-showing-off-an-ai-generated-fake-tv-episode-during-a-writers-strike-is-a-bad-idea/

>>  public a paper on "Generative TV & Showrunner Agents."

First they came for the writers, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a writer....

The new creative tech is beyond disruptive for this industry. It is still in its infancy and already far cheaper & faster.  I can't see a way for actors, writers, producers, etc. to preserve scarcity and charge $$ for it.

I think like everything, there will always be a market for a small number of people, but you won't need vast armies.

People have a tendency to say, "Yeah, but it will be a long time until an AI can do X." The problem with that is the studios won't wait until an AI can make films like the current films. AIs will make new sorts of films.

I was listening to Tom Hanks recently point out that that is because the technology makes that possible. He pointed out that even the first Batman movie was a wires and stuntpeople affair, but now they are massive CGI productions. The flood is based on the fact that these massive extravaganzas can mostly be green-screened.

So the tech drives the story. The medium is the message. It's not that AI will take over the jobs in the current industry, but that it will start to remake the industry in its image by favoring films that lend themselves to using more and more AI in production.

Washington can't stop Hollywood's AI apocalypse - POLITICO

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/04/washington-cant-stop-hollywoods-ai-apocalypse-justine-bateman-says-00109778

How AI is bringing film stars back from the dead - BBC Future

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230718-how-ai-is-bringing-film-stars-back-from-the-dead

Scarlett Johansson hits AI app with legal action for cloning her voice in an ad - The Verge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/1/23942557/scarlett-johansson-ai-app-developers-lawsuit

Stunning bikini model racks up thousands of fans online despite not being real

https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/stunning-bikini-model-racks-up-thousands-of-fans-online-despite-not-being-real-015746428.html