Dance like no one is watching, sing like no one is listening, and write like there's no artificial intelligence about to take your job. Now, we writers, like so many other creative professionals, have someone younger and more artificial coming down the ladder behind us, for pulling Showgirls.
Screenwriters in the United States have gone on strike with a very specific list of demands rejected by the employers. Many have to do with residuals, something akin to copyright (although not limited to authors). Because the platforms are passing the residuals through the lining of streaming. But this economic compensation is an old workhorse of the sector. In the 2007 strike, for example, the amount agreed on the sale of DVDs was settled.
The novelty of this strike is the fight against artificial intelligence: "AI cannot write or rewrite any literary material; It cannot be used as a source, nor can it be trained with material covered by the union." Request denied. Saturday Night Live monologues (very bad) written by chatGPT circulate on Reddit and the big studios are making their first steps in this regard. I'm going with a common place: it looks like a bad episode of Black Mirror. One written by an AI.
Artificial intelligence will never be able to create the great works that natural foolishness has given us. I want to entrust myself to that idea. Biden, thank goodness, has sided with the screenwriters: "America needs writers," he has declared. "They tell the stories of our nation and should have the dignity and courage they deserve. I sincerely hope that the writers' strike will be resolved and the writers will get a fair deal as soon as possible." It could have been written by an artificial intelligence.
You can follow EL PAÍS TELEVISIÓN on Twitter or sign up here to receive our weekly newsletter.
Subscribe to continue reading
Read without limits
Read more
I'm already a subscriber
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/OHXLFBWROJHYTONFRSHBKYUOIU.jpg)
