Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Looks like that Hollywood Strike inspired by AI Fears is a go.

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Follow up to yesterday's segment on this topic, the Writers Guild of America has officially

called for a strike after negotiations with Netflix, Apple, Amazon, and others over pay and also AI issues failed.

Around 12,000 writers may strike and other Hollywood unions will probably follow suit, quoting

Gizmodo.

The Strike, which is the first involving WGA to occur in 15 years, seeks to bring firms to the

table on a host of issues including higher pay and better working conditions.

But some of the issues are quite unique in the annals of modern labor disputes and have to do

with technological changes currently disrupting the entertainment industry, such as the role

artificial intelligence may play in future screenwriting projects.

Negotiations between WGA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television producers, the trade

organization that represents the movie and streaming studios in contract negotiations have been

ongoing for the past month but the deadline for a new contract was midnight

on Tuesday morning. In its own statement the AMPTP claimed that it had presented a, quote,

comprehensive package proposal to the guild

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