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by AJ007 1017 days ago
I really have wondered who convinced them the strikes were a good idea. It's clear the streaming content bubble has popped. It was a revenue windfall for everyone involved save investors (Disney's stock has lost nearly a decade of gains.)

The AI stuff is a wildcard on top of everything. The worst case scenario for the WGA and SGA is that the more successful they are with their getting their demands, the less likely there will be anything resembling North America's film/tv industry left within 5 years.

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Maybe the workers involved?

Most background actors replaced by AI generated substitutes.

Writer rooms turned into editor rooms for AI generated thoughts that simply rehash the existing 100k hours of plots already extant.

In a sense, it's the buggy whip workers striking after the Advent of cars