2023-05-04
WGA strike is about the convergence of labor and identity against the plans of capital to use AI to eradicate *Writer* as a meaningful identity; the dream of capitalists going way back. It has the ability to unify the left in a way nothing else could. This is not a normal strike.
Ars Technica
Striking Hollywood writers have two main AI worries: their work being used as training data and being tasked with just fixing AI-generated “sloppy first drafts”
now fix it’: On the picket lines with Hollywood writers as they bring signs, slogans, and sunscreen to their fight … New York Times : Outside Hollywood Studios, Writers Make Their ...