Effects of writers strike on Sci Fi & Fantasy genre

[overgeeked]

UPS workers are on the verge of striking. That will really hamper a lot of things. If they do go on strike, it would be the largest single employer strike in US history.

UPS strike looms in a world grown reliant on everything delivered everywhere all the time

The last time UPS workers walked of the job more than two decades ago, it crippled the shipping company. An emboldened union is threatening to do the same and this time the disruption would be far greater. The 24 million packages UPS ships on an average day amounts to about a quarter of all U.S...

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[Whizbang Dustyboots]

It's probably inappropriate to embed Public Enemy's NSFW Fight The Power music video here, so just embed it in your heart.

 

[payn]

It's probably inappropriate to embed Public Enemy's NSFW Fight The Power music video here, so just embed it in your heart.

 

[trappedslider]

my brain isn't working

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

so, i found a a fun game system then found out the company that makes it is a pos company,so the game system is no longer fun

Wrong thread?

 

[trappedslider]

Wrong thread?

yes sheepishly backs away baah

 

[Bohandas]

Can't they just replace the writers with a script-writing AI? Granted it might be hard to train an AI to be as uncreative and prone to regurgitating preexisting ideas as real cable or Hollywood writers, but it's worth a shot.

 

[Bohandas]

"People who write for a living" is a very big category. I think AI will impact all of them, but it will likely be in very different ways.

People whose writing is cookie cutter legal documents are already losing their livelihoods.

People who record oral histories from indigenous communities around the world, preserving their language and story before older generations die? If AI can handle that, it's a long way off, given that the AI would need to get out to these (often elderly) people where they are and walk them through an interview process, both reacting to things they say but also keeping them on track with the questions that need to be checked off.

I suspect screenwriters are probably a lot closer to the oral history folks than they are to the legal document mills, in terms of how much hands-on work is required.

Perhaps they are, but I suspect that the shortfalls with oral history are more to do with the fact that serious research has a very low tolerance for BS (Granted the legal forms do too, but they're also highly ritualized, which makes them easy for the system to understand). You don't want the Fact Sphere as your professor.

In a situation that thrives by and is based on making things up, such as fiction writing or leadership, I would expect an AI to do very well.

 

[Umbran]

Can't they just replace the writers with a script-writing AI? Granted it might be hard to train an AI to be as uncreative and prone to regurgitating preexisting ideas as real cable or Hollywood writers, but it's worth a shot.

It isn't clear what value you thought this insult would bring to the conversation.

 

[overgeeked]

DGA & Hollywood Studios Reach “Historic” Tentative Deal On New Contract

The Directors Guild and the studios have reached a tentative agreement on a new three-year contract. The deal includes wage increases and “a 76% increase in foreign residuals for the largest …

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