WGA Writers Stood Up to AI-Generated Content
The sudden explosion of mainstream interest in ChatGPT-style chatbots and other generative AI tools has led creative types from numerous fields to fear the possibility their job might soon be outsourced to an untrusted bot. Those concerns were part of the components fueling a five-month strike by Hollywood writers part of the Writers Guild of America (WGA).
The WGA ultimately won out on AI and worked with studios to include this language in a summary of their new bargaining agreement.
“AI can’t write or rewrite literary material, and AI-generated material will not be considered source material,” the agreement read.
