on Monday, “The Other Black Girl” and “Swarm” writer Kara Brown said AI has been “the stickiest thing and people have been talking about it a lot, when it feels to me like this is not our biggest issue — I would like residuals.”
“[AI] is giving bitcoin; it’s giving a bunch of tech people,” said Brown to laughs from the audience. “Or Elon Musk saying you’re all going to be driving self-driving cars, and then these cars murdering people constantly. I think there are a lot of legal fights before this AI thing is happening, because you can’t copyright AI.”
“What the DGA achieved with their contract was a good basis for us to build off of, in terms of basic things like crew hours, etc.” said Lim. “The WGA isn’t going to take that as the pattern for what we need to accept. Same with the SAG contract.”SAG-AFTRA voted overwhelmingly to approve a strike authorization