GPT-4 Can’t Replace Striking TV Writers, but Studios Are Going to Try
&gt;The WGA proposed to regulate the use of artificial intelligence on union projects, saying that AI can’t write or rewrite literary material,<p>First, the literal wording of this is also means Grammarly and translation applications cannot be used.<p>Second, the enforcement of this is very unclear.  What happens if a film is halfway through production, and then <i>gasp</i> it turns out a writer rewrote the screenplay using AI?  You can&#x27;t use AI as source material, so arguably any use of that script or any work based off that script is &quot;using AI as source material&quot;.   Does the production just have to be cancelled?  There&#x27;s a problem here not only with proving that a writer DID use an AI, but proving that they DIDN&#x27;T and thus a production doesn&#x27;t need to be burned to the ground.<p>Third, how far do you take this?  AI even before ChatGPT and LLM&#x27;s is already broadly prevalent in writing, so what exactly establishes the pedigree of something as clean from the influence of vile AI?<p>&gt;It’s very easy to imagine a situation in which a studio uses AI to generate ideas or drafts, claims those ideas are ‘source material,’ and hires a writer to polish it up for a lower rate.<p>It&#x27;s even easier to imagine a studio will simply continue hiring writers and buying drafts from writers using AIs.  How can you possibly prove an idea came from an AI and not a person in the first place?<p>&gt;can’t be used as source material or to train AI.<p>How many studios are actually going to train their own AIs?  What stops a studio or contractor from using an AI trained on such source material?  Wouldn&#x27;t it be more prudent to ban the use of AIs which were trained on WGA materials?<p>This entire proposal seems to be based on the populist sentiment about creatives being the victims of both studios and AIs, so obviously we need to stop the studios from using AIs by banning AI usage in film productions.  The problem is that the writers are the users of AIs and they&#x27;re the only ones who know and can prove they used an AI in practice.<p>I&#x27;m sure it&#x27;s good politics because it leads to headlines like &quot;GPT-4 Can’t Replace Striking TV Writers, but Studios Are Going to Try&quot;.