Let’s replace ourselves with robots! It’ll be great!
Hollywood’s writers went on strike this week; and an “A-list lawyer” has warned them that the longer the strike goes on, the more likely the studios will be to replace the writers with Artificial Intelligence (https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/05/03/hollywood-a-list-talent-lawyer-the-longer-the-writer-strike-the-more-scripts-will-be-written-by-ai/).
If you think movies are already drab, flat, unoriginal, and dull… you ain’t seen nothin’ yet.
AI is, of course, an issue in this strike. The writers are caught between a rock and a hard place. If they call off the strike, the studios win. If they don’t, the studios will replace them with machines and the movie-going public will have to settle for tasteless pap.
Elon Musk and some other Big Tech giants have said we’re plunging way too fast into a love affair with AI and we’d better stop to think it over.
But when have we ever done that?