Hollywood SHUTS DOWN As Actors, Writers Strike Over Pay and AI EXPLOITATION?! Rising

Jessica Burbank and Shermichael Singleton discuss news that Hollywood actors and writers have gone on strike. #SAG #ai

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[Krangbot]

And nothing of value was lost. Hopefully they stay on strike for generations to come. Nothing they have made in the past 10 years is worth watching or listening to.

[HazeOfWhearyWater]

Hollywood SHUTS DOWN

Oh, no. Who will make the terrible movies no one is really interested in now?

[thesuperdingos]

There haven’t been any good movies lately anyway. You watch a comedy from 2000-2010 and the humor is actually funny. Nowadays movies play it so safe that nothing is funny or worth watching anymore. This might be a good thing in the long run.

[daveblackman]

Nothing of any value was lost. I haven’t seen a new movie or tv show in a long while. Everything is a remake or reboot.

[Krangbot]

Hollywood hasn't made anything of value worth compensation in years! Comedy isn't allowed to be funny, drama is inauthentic and inorganic, ideas are unoriginal. The messages are all the same, preachy and inorganic. Nothing is there worth compensating.

[vainezaiven]

The "eternity" comment is hilarious, but I totally believe it. It reminds me of the book publishing deals I signed in the past in which the company secured the rights to publish my work "throughout the universe." Language like that is partly why I ended up deciding to go into business for myself.

[HazeOfWhearyWater]

Although I support them, these people as a class have made it very difficult to get behind them through their incessant and callous demonization of regular people.

[juegomaestro]

I see movies etc as art, and nothing becomes any more appreciative when it comes from the human creative mind. You get to say, "wow, that person was a genius." That all is completely gone.

[pauliseri]

The whole industry changed drastically during the pandemic with more content going on line. All of those involved will have to change with it and there will be multiple people who get left out

[miket]

I havent real seen any quality films in about a decade. In the 90s we had multiple blockbuster films every year

[killax]

Thing is, in a writing toom of 12, maybe 3 are worth anything. Rest are hacks and easily replaceable with anyone off the street

[AngryGenXer]

Can Hollywood stay shut down permanently?

[Chrisfeb]

I don't really watch what Hollywood puts out, I haven't for years now. I mainly watch stuff on YouTube, reruns of old TV shows, movies and documentaries and I'm perfectly happy with that. I think a lot of people do the same thing and I think that the writers and actors are in for a rude awakening.

[Juancajumbo]

Well, actors and writers are not the first one to be affected by AI. Graphic artists where concerned and warned about AI since the beginning when their art was stolen to feed the machine. I wonder what career will be at risk next. Reporters? Customer support? Teachers maybe?
Who will regulate all of this?

[syruptishuss]

‘You’ve got guitars on your wall, I’m a piano player”? We’re putting the band back together!

[leefromtwitter]

Plenty of bricklayers needed and carpenters. These writers can fuel their middle class life but they look down on construction workers. Evidence is everything Hollywood writes about them

[petergalko]

The issues are deeper than just movies. There is currently a problem with a new Canadian law requiring Google and the like to pay news providers for the news they reference. Google is refusing and blacklisting Canadian news companies. Similar logic.

[AgentMoler]

There is less money to go around and the writers did themselves no favors writing formulaic and derivative trash. The actors should be talking about capping their salaries and giving everyone who works on the production significantly more money if they want my sympathy. What it seems like is they want to turn the clock back to the 1990s when they were flush with cash and money was easily flowing. Things change and times change. Most of the population wouldn’t care if they switch to twitch, YouTube, or TikTok for entertainment and the studios will just green light a bunch of reality shows (which are quite popular with women).

[richardiven]

This is good for Hollywood. Think about how many bad movies and shows have come out in the last decade and this could help thin out the garbage that was losing them money.

[mcarrusa]

I don't know if Jessica is serious at 5:13, or just engaging in some sort of solidarity/signaling, when it comes to why Hollywood does remake after remake, with almost-zero fresh concepts. It has little or nothing to do with writers pay, or allowing them to do their thing, creatively. The industry is permanently hamstrung by Wall Street, which demands consistent revenue and profits.

Superhero and other "franchises" are no longer very exciting...everyone knows that, as she acknowledged. But they come with a built in audience who will go see the picture, almost no matter what. So take that block, and tack on SOME newcomers, and you start with a decent base of revenue for each picture.

On top of the above, you have the various social agendas that have taken-root in Hollywood, so there is "virtue gridlock" in what a picture can and cannot cover/say/cast, because many of these ideologies don't always run in parallel. Everyone's an activist, and some will get offended, then detonate the quarterly earnings of their "enemy."

Studio bosses know that a lot of the Left-coast messaging is still too new for middle America to buy into, so from the perspective of profits, it makes sense to stick with the regurgitated franchise content that is as close to a sure thing as they have today.

SAG and WGA can and probably will stay on strike for a good-long-time. They, like $15/hr burger flippers, are just going to push the industry faster and faster to AI generated content.

We WILL see the first all-AI feature in the next 24 months. I have no insider info that backs me up on that, but the Studios are not going to stand for being shut down for much longer. They see AI on the horizon, so there is little incentive to sign a long-term, precedent-setting sweet deal, tilted toward the unions.

$15 burger flippers are being replaced by automation. Text to image AI is getting better by the hour, and soon will be able to do very convincing animation, then live action style video.

There will be that "Toy Story" moment, with AI generated content, very soon. And, as they say, "machine don't go on strike". Well, not yet, anyway.