Think the WGA strike isn't relevant to you? It's relevant to anyone doing creative or knowledge work because if it happens to writers, it could happen elsewhere. They asked this consortium under AMPTP including Amazon and Netflix that AI be prevented from training on covered material, and rewriting their work. The request was not only denied but they were offered a token yearly meeting to "discuss advances in technology".
Even some technologists I know don't fully understand how much training is required for AI, and that its generative capacity sits on literally millions of thoughts and ideas generated and ingested into systems. Protecting their IP from being ingested by a variety of neural networks owned by Netflix, Amazon, Paramount, NBC Universal etc., for generative AI use, is a baseline expectation for people who, like actors, may only make a single sale of their labor in a calendar year. #AI#wgastrike#wgawriters#writing#technologyhttps://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-guild-strike-begins-1235340176/