The divine right of kings and the seven-day workweek also seemed inevitable in the past.

AI-generated prose and scripts look like good writing to people who have no idea what the fuck good writing is. I remember someone asked ChatGPT to produce a paragraph in the style of William Gibson and it was the most cliched shit imaginable, dark rain-drenched streets and neon lights. And the final sentence was…

Already seems plausible for children’s shows and half-hour comedies where there’s little demand for continuity/consistency from episode-to-episode.

Again, inevitable my ass. AI is not a genie, it’s a human artifact and it can absolutely be contained by political, economic, and social forces. The writers’ strike is one key example.

I think it’s a balance that we didn’t have during the last writer’s strike. We couldn’t binge older content or shows we’d previously overlooked unless we had box sets or elected to DVR content to watch later.

Inevitable my ass.

T:RotF didnt have writers , just Michael Bay drawings in crayon that they used as a guide to filming* so it was exempt.

...even more international productions will get licensed.

Look , I get what you’re saying , and yes the strike was more important and that , but there’s no denying it completely fucked over some shows.

Why pay people to create when they can create copies of copies of copies for free?

Right. The pilots are filmed but there’s no guarantee they’ll have a staff once picked up.

This one REALLY galls me. The absolute hubris to think writers don’t FULLY understand AI and what its implications are for their jobs... god. I hope the WGA gets every single one of their demands and more.

They’re screwing pilot season right now. Who knows if the networks hate this more than the mid-season slump.

What benefits are being realized at this moment?

I really hope this puts the kibosh on HBO Max and other streaming service’s “we’d rather cancel or drop older content than pay residuals” B.S.
Residuals are a drop in the bucket compared to the billions the networks are raking in in profits, and doing so screws over absolutely everybody but the executives and corporate…

This is actually one of the things the WGA is fighting against. And with good reason.

It’s also good for io9 - after all, the 2008 Writer Strike gave us Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and io9's review of that flick is legendary. Can’t wait.

this article is in support of the workers, written by a union writer, published at a union shop.

Solidarity with the writers — though these strikes are tough on a lot of people who depend on these productions to make ends meet. (Myself included.) Below-the-line people in the other departments that make these shows happen. The Art PA, the Construction Coordinator, Location Scouts. It puts a lot of people out of…

So starting off by saying, sounds like this will be an overall positive development for working conditions for writers, so that’s a good thing.