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Journalists’ and Writers’ Unions Call on Congress to Consider Threats to Their Work in AI Legislation
Leaders of the Writers Guild of America East and West, The NewsGuild, and the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians demanded "urgent action" in a letter to Sen. Chuck Schumer.
Presidents of the Writers Guild of America East and West, The NewsGuild and the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians wrote to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Wednesday, urging that Congress “recognize the human ingenuity and creativity essential to a free press, the media and entertainment industry, and our members’ livelihoods” in its work to regulate AI. Between September and December 2023, Schumer convened nine “AI Insight Forums” that brought together tech leaders, heads of unions and other organizations and scholars as Congress sought to start crafting legislation on the rapidly developing technology. Still, Wednesday’s letter sought to further underscore the threat that these union members face as select news companies, like G/O Media, have experimented with AI and large language models continue to ingest film and television writers’ work, despite the WGA establishing new guardrails on how entertainment studios can use the technology in its 2023 contract.
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