Hollywood strikes: Are writers proper about AI?

Aug 10, 2023 at 4:14 AM
Hollywood strikes: Are writers proper about AI?

It’s been 100 days since Hollywood writers went on strike over considerations synthetic intelligence (AI) will take their jobs – in addition to disputes over working circumstances and claims of dwindling pay.

The looming cloud of AI hangs over all industries, however are writers and actors proper to be fearful about being stripped of their creativity?

On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood is joined by Lisa Holdsworth – a TV and theatre author, and chair of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain – in addition to Dr Alex Connock, senior fellow on the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, to speak about how AI is reshaping their trade.

She’s additionally joined by Sky’s arts and leisure reporter Jayson Mansaray to debate whether or not a contented ending is in sight for the strikers.

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