Comment on MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT FOR THE 2023 WGA THEATRICAL AND TELEVISION BASIC AGREEMENT
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 year agoFrom what I see from reading the summary MOU, they got a total ban on AI. Where do you see that as kicking the can down the road?
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Oh, they got their writing rooms, they broke the Chinese wall of streaming numbers.
The small raises hurt the rank and file, and the streaming residuals are barely noticeable for the rank and file.
The wga management made out like bandits, tons of money for the health care and pension funds, some cash for training, and they know the numbers now.
I don’t think the average member will see much here.
For ai it’s not a ban, it’s that writers cannot be compelled to work on ai drafts, which is good, but basically it’s an admission that ai sucks now, 5 years down when things have changed there’s room for maneuver.
But the studios did admit ai isn’t that big of a threat today, which is a useful negotiating point.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
This is what the WGA summary says about the AI provisions:
Where do you disagree with their assessment?
InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The summary is meaningless, the language is critical, attend:
It means gai material is not covered by this agreement unless a writer is asked to rewrite or adapt it as specified in later clauses.
Gai does not get writing credit, but there is no bar from having a gai written script other than the obvious fact that it would be effectively unwatchable without human editing.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Given that the summary is written by the people who wrote the agreement, presumably under the advise of their lawyers, I think I’m going to trust it over someone’s assessment of what they happen to think a single out of context passage means (and to be clear, the entirety of this MOU - if you’re trying to do an actual close legal reading of it - is out of context because this exists in relationship with the existing contracts that it is updating).