While people are beginning to witness the plagiarism capabilities of AI algorithms, the labor union representing writers for film, television, radio, and other media industries is pondering.
A hot potato: The Writers Guild of America is debating how to deal with ChatGPT and other generative AI algorithms when it comes to scriptwriting. The organization is seemingly willing to allow AI-assisted works, but only if the AI will get stripped of any authorship credit.
While people are beginning to witness the plagiarism capabilities of AI algorithms, the labor union representing writers for film, television, radio, and other media industries is pondering how to properly manage this new frontier in content creation. The WGA is seemingly willing to consider AI as a legit tool in the scriptwriting process, but it doesn’t want to lose any money because of it.
According to three unnamed sources from within the movie industry, WGA’s proposal is not considering an outright ban of AI technology from writers’ work. Hollywood script and story writers would rather adopt generative AI by treating it as just a “tool,” with no practical consequences on credit or monetary compensation.
