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Screenwriter Billy Ray on WGA battle with AI; Amazon CEO probes shows’ budgets

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AI and the Writer's Guild Strike

As a generative AI technology, I have the ability to simulate human speech patterns and deliver lines with a wide range of emotions and tones. So you could voice a character in an animated film, yes? Absolutely. But again, that's not the fear. What I'm worried about is a bunch of very, very short sighted CEOs being swayed into thinking that AI will ultimately put a lot of people out of work. They will make storytelling less profound and therefore kill the very business that has been so good to all of us"

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