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The WGA has terrible timing with their strikes. Last one was in 2008. This one is now on the heels of another banking crisis and chatgpt which has the ability t

The WGA has terrible timing with their strikes. Last one was in 2008. This one is now on the heels of another banking crisis and chatgpt which has the ability to destroy any writing gigs. I feel for my friends in the industry but AI is going to wreck workers in entertainment.

dhosek 3y ago
It’s going to also wreck entertainment.
_whiteCaps_ 3y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2019/04/15/wga-ata-writers-fire-agents-fired-strike-staffing-season/?sh=57a9942e145b https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2019/04/15/wga-ata-... I don't know how to describe it, but the WGA had a form of collective action in 2019 - they fired all of their agents. Not exactly a strike, but maybe more like a boycott?
cbsmith 3y ago
> I feel for my friends in the industry but AI is going to wreck workers in entertainment. I seriously doubt that, but I imagine this is exactly the point where one needs to renegotiate to make sure terms are fair. Strikes are common when labour is at a relative disadvantage, because that's when they tend to be exploited the most.
kcartlidge 3y ago
> The WGA has terrible timing with their strikes. Last one was in 2008. This one is now on the heels of another banking crisis and chatgpt which has the ability to destroy any writing gigs. I don't think it's terrible timing due to ChatGPT and AI. Rather, it is timing that is specifically because of ChatGPT and AI.
- jjk166 3y ago
  The writing's been on the wall (no pun intended) for quite some time (GPT-3 was released in 2020), and writers would have been in a much better position to say "you won't be able to replace us with AI anytime soon" even just a few months ago. But they waited until after the technology became so accessible that even non-technical people are regularly using AI to write things.

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The WGA has terrible timing with their strikes. Last one was in 2008. This one is now on the heels of another banking crisis and chatgpt which has the ability t

by freitzkriesler2 3y ago

dhosek 3y ago
It’s going to also wreck entertainment.
_whiteCaps_ 3y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2019/04/15/wga-ata-writers-fire-agents-fired-strike-staffing-season/?sh=57a9942e145b https://www.forbes.com/sites/merrillbarr/2019/04/15/wga-ata-... I don't know how to describe it, but the WGA had a form of collective action in 2019 - they fired all of their agents. Not exactly a strike, but maybe more like a boycott?
cbsmith 3y ago
> I feel for my friends in the industry but AI is going to wreck workers in entertainment. I seriously doubt that, but I imagine this is exactly the point where one needs to renegotiate to make sure terms are fair. Strikes are common when labour is at a relative disadvantage, because that's when they tend to be exploited the most.
kcartlidge 3y ago
> The WGA has terrible timing with their strikes. Last one was in 2008. This one is now on the heels of another banking crisis and chatgpt which has the ability to destroy any writing gigs. I don't think it's terrible timing due to ChatGPT and AI. Rather, it is timing that is specifically because of ChatGPT and AI.
- jjk166 3y ago
  The writing's been on the wall (no pun intended) for quite some time (GPT-3 was released in 2020), and writers would have been in a much better position to say "you won't be able to replace us with AI anytime soon" even just a few months ago. But they waited until after the technology became so accessible that even non-technical people are regularly using AI to write things.