Hollywood writers are on strike – and late-night TV is on hiatus. Could AI be a substitute?
For the first time in 15 years, TV and film writers are putting down their proverbial pen in protest, after union negotiations between the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and major studios broke down over concerns about not just wages, but also the use of artificial intelligence to write scripts.
The WGA likened the use of AI in screenwriting to plagiarism and said it was fighting to regulate the technology because it “undermines writers’ working standards including compensation.”
