Entertainment executives didn't want to relinquish the right to train their own AI tools based on TV and movie scripts, since their understanding is that AI tech platforms already are training their own models on such materials, the WSJ reported. The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers did not immediately respond to Reuters' requests for comment. Setting the stage for another possible work stoppage in Hollywood, video game voice actors and motion capture performers voted on Monday to authorize a strike if negotiations on a new labor contract fail.
WGA negotiators want to be called heros (and continue being paid to be negotiators), so of course they’ll say they won even if they didn’t.
It doesn’t work like that. They have to negotiate a deal that the members will vote for.
Negotiators: We won!
Members: Oh thank you, we were worried, we really need this over.
Someone who reads the fine print: Uh, this is terrible.
Large enough percentage of Members: Hey didn’t you hear them it’s over quit nitpicking!