The WGA Strike is a Canary in the Coal Mine for AI Labor Concerns

In a nutshell: Film, television, radio, and media writers are on strike, and their demands include restrictions on AI use. Studios have responded by threatening to use AI systems — trained using the fruits of the labor of the very writers on strike — as AI Strikebreakers. This scenario paints a bleak picture for a wide variety of professions that produce data as a byproduct of a day’s work.

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