Hollywood Writers Win Promise: No Robots Will Get Screen Credits
- Contract includes some curbs on AI, but not an outright ban
- Studios may use existing scripts to train AI software
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Hollywood screenwriters obtained one of the first contracts to govern the use of artificial intelligence as a result of their five-month long strike.
Major Hollywood studios, including Walt Disney Co. and Netflix Inc., have agreed that AI “is not a writer,” according to a summary of the new three-year labor agreement distributed by the Writers Guild of America. Writers can elect to use the technology, but can’t be required to do so. The studios have to disclose if any material given to writers was generated by AI.