Hollywood strikes: Are writers right about AI?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The looming cloud of AI hangs over all industries, but are writers and actors right to be worried about being stripped of their creativity?
On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood is joined by Lisa Holdsworth – a TV and theatre writer, and chair of the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain – as well as Dr Alex Connock, senior fellow at the University of Oxford’s Saïd Business School, to talk about how AI is reshaping their industry.
She’s also joined by Sky’s arts and entertainment reporter Jayson Mansaray to discuss whether a happy ending is in sight for the strikers.
Podcast producer: Emma Rae Woodhouse
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Digital Promotions producer: David Chipakupaku
Editor: Paul Stanworth
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| 1:02.4 | Actors and writers have been on strike in Hollywood for more than 100 days now. |
| 1:07.6 | The last time Tinsletown saw industrial action like this in 2009, it was resolved by this |
| 1:13.7 | point, but this time there's still no end in sight. Hollywood stars have come out in support, |
| 1:20.5 | even joining the picket line. We can all be artificially generated. That's frightening. That's not art as far as I'm concerned. |
| 1:29.4 | There is a lot of solidarity among the performers, but in the studio side of thing, everyone's in it |
| 1:33.7 | for themselves. The stakes feel higher this time. It's not just about claims of dwindling pay |
| 1:39.9 | and conditions. It's what many actors and writers see as an existential threat to their jobs and their |
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