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action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/05\/03\/ai-replace-tv-writers-strike\/<\/a><\/br> In the must-watch<\/span> final season of \u201cSuccession,\u201d Kendall Roy enters a conference room with his siblings. As the scene opens, he takes a seat and declares<\/a>: \u201cWho will be the successor? Me.\u201d<\/p>\n Of course, that scene didn\u2019t appear on HBO\u2019s hit show, but it\u2019s a good illustration of generative AI\u2019s level of sophistication compared to the real thing. Yet as the Writers Guild of America goes on strike in pursuit of livable working conditions and better streaming residuals, the networks won\u2019t budge on writers\u2019 demands to regulate the use of AI in writers\u2019 rooms.<\/p>\n \u201cOur proposal is that we not be required to adapt something that\u2019s output by AI, and that the output of an AI not be considered writers\u2019 work,\u201d comedy writer Adam Conover told TechCrunch. \u201cThat doesn\u2019t entirely exclude that technology from the production process, but it does mean that our working conditions wouldn\u2019t be undermined by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n But the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) refused to engage with that proposal, instead offering a yearly meeting to discuss \u201cadvances in technology.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen we first put [the proposal] in, we thought we were covering our bases \u2014 you know, some of our members are worried about this, the area is moving quickly, we should get ahead of it,\u201d Conover said. \u201cWe didn\u2019t think it\u2019d be a contentious issue because the fact of the matter is, the current state of the text-generation technology is completely incapable of writing any work that could be used in a production.\u201d<\/p>\n The text-generating algorithms behind tools like ChatGPT are not built to entertain us. Instead, they analyze patterns<\/a> in massive datasets to respond to requests by determining what is most likely the desired output. So, ChatGPT knows that \u201cSuccession\u201d is about an aging media magnate\u2019s children fighting for control of his company, but it is unlikely to come up with any dialogue more nuanced than, \u201cWho will be the successor? Me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n According to Ben Zhao, a University of Chicago professor and faculty lead of art anti-mimicry tool Glaze<\/a>, AI advancements can be used as an excuse for corporations to devalue human labor.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s to the advantage of the studios and bigger corporations to basically over-claim ChatGPT\u2019s abilities, so they can, in negotiations at least, undermine and minimize the role of human creatives,\u201d Zhao told TechCrunch. \u201cI\u2019m not sure how many people at these larger companies actually believe what they\u2019re saying.\u201d<\/p>\n Conover emphasized that some parts of a writer\u2019s job are less obvious than literal scriptwriting but equally difficult to replicate with AI.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s going and meeting with the set decoration department that says, \u2018Hey, we can\u2019t actually build this prop that you\u2019re envisioning, could you do this instead?\u2019 and then you talk to them and go back and rewrite,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is a human enterprise that involves working with other people, and that simply cannot be done by an AI.\u201d<\/p>\n Comedian Yedoye Travis sees how AI could be useful in a writers\u2019 room.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat we do in writers\u2019 rooms is ultimately bouncing ideas around,\u201d he told TechCrunch. \u201cEven if it\u2019s not good per se, an AI can throw together a script in however many minutes, compared to a week for human writers, and then it\u2019s easier to edit than to write.\u201d<\/p>\n But even if there may be some promise for how humans can leverage this technology, he worries that studios see it merely as a way to demand more from writers over a shorter period of time.<\/p>\n \u201cIt says to me that they\u2019re only concerned with things being made,\u201d Travis said. \u201cThey\u2019re not concerned with people being paid for things being made.\u201d<\/p>\n Writers are also advocating to regulate the use of AI in entertainment because it remains a legal grey area.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not clear that the work that it outputs is copyrightable, and a movie studio is not going to spend $50 to $100 million shooting a script that they don\u2019t know that they own the copyright to,\u201d Conover said. \u201cSo we figured this would be an easy give for [the AMPTP], but they completely stonewalled on it.\u201d<\/p>\n As the Writers Guild of America strikes for the first time since its historic 100-day action in 2007, Conover said he thinks the debate over AI technology is a \u201cred herring.\u201d With generative AI in such a rudimentary stage, writers are more immediately concerned with dismal streaming residuals<\/a> and understaffed<\/a> writing teams. Yet studios\u2019 pushback on the union\u2019s AI-related requests only further reinforces the core issue: The people who power Hollywood aren\u2019t being paid their fair share.<\/p>\n \u201c<\/span>I\u2019m not worried about the technology,\u201d Conover said. \u201cI\u2019m worried about the companies using technology, that is not in fact very good, to undermine our working conditions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n <\/br><\/br><\/br><\/p>\n
\nAI can\u2019t replace human writers<\/br>
\n2023-05-03 21:38:19<\/br><\/p>\n