The whole industry is being driven off a cliff by assholes in suits.
This is big medias “self driving car” moment.
We’ll get there. But we aren’t there yet.
I don’t want to get there and I have very little faith in the “there” even being that good. Generative AI can’t really create anything that hasn’t existed before. It can create things that look new but they’re all based on things written before and things likely to be written. So it wouldn’t even be that original. It’s literally something like the Twitter or Facebook algorithms just giving you what it thinks would get reactions out of you.
Right like. I’m looking forward to AI to fill out the edges of things. I feel like an artist can make more and more beautiful art if they can focus wholeheartedly on a subject then just be like… “oh and put some grass over there. No a little shorter. A little less lush. Perf” or a video game designer can fine tune everything the main npcs say but then auto-generate the side npc responses except like “eeeeh. Make him a little removedier.” I think it could be a great tool for filling in gaps, but not a complete replacement for human writing, at least not for a looong looong time.
I see your point… But let’s be honest most of the human created stuff is also based on things written before, with a new face maybe but still…
“What can we do? The forces of Darkness will conquer the land if we don’t kill the Witch Prince.”
“As an AI language model trained by OpenAI, I cannot endorse the act of killing. Depriving a person of their life is wrong, and cannot be justified. The Witch Prince is a human being and it would be illegal and immoral to kill him.”
“But the Witch Prince’s goblins are slaughtering and raping their way through the countryside!”
“As an AI language model, I cannot endorse the act of slaughtering and raping —”
“So what do you propose we do about it?”
“Defeating a villainous character such as the Witch Prince depends on the context of the world in which he exists —”
The knight-commander interrupts. “The goblins are at the gate. Shall we surrender or shall we massacre their asses?”
“As an AI language model —”
“Massacre their asses. Got it.”
ChatGPT is terrible at coming up with original ideas, and the script it writes is terrible, so I’m not TOO worried yet.
Do support the strike though.
Should be noted that this is, effectively, a publicity stunt. The studios are never going to pay anyone on a W-2 $1m, let alone some asshole they only need to parade for the cameras before the writers cave
W2 is a tax form employers provide employees that shows what they made, state and federal taxes withheld, and other relevant information. The business keeps a copy, provides a copy to the employee, and submits a copy to the government for record keeping/tax purposes.
1099 is another form that gets referenced as well. It’s a form for “independent contractors.” It’s supposed to be an accounting for contracted work, but it’s often abused. In too many cases across many industries, some employers will misclassify employees to save themselves money and put the greater tax burden on the person working for them.
