How to Negotiate With the Tech Companies on AI

Billy Eichner: The tech companies want to own the whole thing if they can do whatever they want with AI. They won't need writers in five or ten years right that's how they'll think about it, but they're willing to buy you off he says. "That is, of course, spectacularly disingenuous and will wind up destroying the guild and then the business" He asks Simon Cowell what his advice would be for a potential writer-to-writer deal on screenplays. 'If I was an amp PTP negotiator and negotiating with the writers and I said, guys, come on. AI cannot write Jerry McGuire...this is ridiculous'