Arguably the biggest shakeup in the film and TV industries since the rise of Netflix and streaming services is unfolding. The emergence of natural language processing models such as ChatGPT has ignited a fierce debate over AI’s use in content creation, and battle lines are being drawn.
Perhaps the largest single-minded response has been from 20,000 odd Hollywood film and TV writers. On May 2nd, the Writers' Guild of America (WGA) called a strike after negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), who represent the studios and networks, ended in a stalemate.
