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WGA Sends Letter to Studios, Urging Lawsuits Against AI Plagiarism: ‘Inaction has Harmed WGA Members’


In a letter to the major Hollywood studios, the WGA is uging action, including lawsuits, against AI plagiarism.

The Writers Guild of America ‘s east and west chapters have sent a strongly-worded letter to the heads of the major Hollywood studios, criticizing them for inaction as artificial intelligence appears to be taking copy-written scripts and using it to “plagiarize stolen works.” In the letter, the WGAW and WGAE officers cite a Nov. 18 article by The Atlantic, noting that “tech companies have looted the studios’ intellectual property—a vast reserve of works created by generations of union labor—to train their artificial intelligence systems.” The November 18 Atlantic article “There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing is Powering AI” confirms what was already clear to so many: tech companies have looted the studios’ intellectual property—a vast reserve of works created by generations of union labor—to train their artificial intelligence systems.

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