AI and Streaming Play Leading Roles in Hollywood Strike

WSJ Tech News Briefing

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🗓️ 18 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Actors and writers say artificial intelligence and streaming have upended the film and TV industry. WSJ media and entertainment reporter Joe Flint joins host Zoe Thomas to discuss how negotiations over the use of these technologies led to both unions striking. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.0	Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, July 18.
0:22.5	I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.
0:25.5	Machines coming to replace us all sounds like a line out of Hollywood.
0:30.0	And it is. It's the fear that both writers and actors have expressed as they've gone on strike.
0:44.5	Both are concerned about how technology, particularly artificial intelligence and streaming,
0:49.5	are going to upend the industry.
0:52.0	Our media and entertainment reporter Joe Flint will join us to explain.
0:56.5	Plus, got an international travel plan?
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1:06.0	Starting though with Hollywood, actors and writers have been striking after unions representing each
1:11.5	fail to reach deals with the alliance of motion pictures and television producers,
1:16.0	a coalition representing movie and TV studios, networks and streamers.
1:21.0	A major sticking point in the talks has been how the industry should adapt to new technologies.
1:26.5	Here's Fran Drescher, the president of SAG After, which represents actors.
1:31.0	The entire business model has been changed by streaming, digital, AI.
1:38.5	This is a moment of history that is a moment of truth.
1:42.5	If we don't stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble.
1:48.0	We are all going to be in jeopardy of being replaced by machines.
1:53.0	Our media and entertainment reporter Joe Flint is here to talk us through this.
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