Artificial intelligence, house building and the TV writers strike
The News Meeting
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AI and the WGA
In the old days, a production studio could make a show and it could be syndicated across different TV networks. But now streaming services increasingly demand exclusivity which means if you've sold your series to Netflix,. It just sits in Netflix forever. I can't sell it anywhere else, often across multiple territories. Just really briefly then, you mentioned AI. Are those big studios, the nine big studios? Have they got robots writing TV shows? They have got robots doing things like reading scripts and providing notes. And what's interesting is the WGA is demanding a blanket ban in the basic minimum contract that the union has with the studios that no AI will ever go anywhere near a piece of written
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