[LapsangGuzzler]

This is why labor organizing is so important.

The Hollywood writers got major protections against AI exploitation in their new deal, and surely SAG will follow with their own version. Hollywood can’t exist without its writers or actors and they’ve made it clear to the executive class that they will not take these changes lying down.

[almatabata]

If generative AI can create a whole movie from scratch won't that mean the end of Hollywood as they would get replaced by OpenAI and co? Just because Hollywood won't do it does not mean no one will.

[oldpersonintx]

What does organizing a union have to do with this?

People are going to be building this stuff at their kitchen table.

YouTube just surpassed Netflix with teens...no one needs McCorp to make content now and even less so in the future

[mplewis]

Unions protect labor from the forces of capital who take advantage of them. See: the recent WGA strikes and the protections from AI work that they now work under.

[oldpersonintx]

OK but you aren't addressing my point...

How does a union contract stop me from making something at my kitchen table?

The union contract is between some Corp and their employees

The Hollywood strikes seem rooted in 1985...no one needs Hollywood to make or consume content anymore

[LapsangGuzzler]

No one is saying that you can’t build something at your kitchen table.

[jimmaswell]

I think the point is it becomes irrelevant how good of a contract hollywood actors get if hollywood is cut out of the picture entirely by smaller independents using AI.