Blue checks seething in the replies
They wanted to prohibit their scripts from being used to trail AI. We are about to see some of the worst AI generated slop.
Black Mirror 6 is about to come out right? The trailers looked more of a classic horror slasher film than usual techno dystopia. But they could just be messing with us because thats what Black Mirror do.
Are writers the only movie/tv industry people that are reliably organised and strike capable?
I feel like you only ever hear about writers strikes, not like minor actor strikes or cgi worker strikes etc. I guess there are walkouts and such for specific productions.
I don't have a good feeling about this, and I don't know if the WGA has any more leverage today then they did in 2007. For a lot of reasons they probably have less. The studios likely have larger pools of scab labor, Americans have grown much more tolerant of imported subbed/dubbed (as opposed to remade) series, and the streaming giants have shifted to rotational models so they can keep their libraries "fresh" by rotating old shows in and out.
Instead of not writing, they should exclusively write the most chaotic possible communist agitprop. People will remember that time Jimmy Kimmel just sat there reading "Inventing Reality" while names, addresses, and photos of media CEOs and shareholders scrolled in the background and be much more willing to negotiate in the future.
Writer's Guild announcing the strike: "Well... This just happened"
