The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is urging Hollywood studios to take immediate action against the growing issue of AI plagiarism. It's a call to action that echoes the union's concerns during the lengthy 2023 writer's strike.   WGA calls out major studios The WGA East and West recently sent a letter to CEOs of major studios. They include Netflix, Walt Disney Co., NBCUniversal, Paramount Global, Sony Pictures, Amazon MGM Studios and Warner Bros…

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WGA calls on Hollywood studios to combat AI plagiarism

Writers Guild of America sent a letter to Hollywood studios including Disney, Sony and Netflix, asking them to take action against tech companies who are using writers' work to train AI.

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Writers Guild demands studios stop tech companies from training AI on their work

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.” The letters were sent on Thursday to Jennifer Salke, head of Amazon MGM […]

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

The Writers Guild of America says the Hollywood studios have “harmed” its members and violated the Minimum Basic Agreement by not acting on the use of their copyrighted works to train generative AI models. 
	A seething letter issued Thursday by the guild claims that tech companies like Meta, Apple and Salesforce have “looted the studios’ intellectual property — a vast reserve of works created by generations of union labor — to train their artifi…

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WGA Slams Studios For Not Protecting Copyrighted Works Used In Generative AI Training Models: “Come Off The Sidelines”

Writers Guild of America this week sent a letter to major Hollywood studios asking them to take action against tech companies that are using writers’ work to train AI tools without their permission. “The studios, as copyright holders of works written by WGA members, have done nothing to stop this theft,” the guild’s leadership said in a letter. “They have allowed tech companies to plunder entire libraries without permission or compensation. The …

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The Writers Guild of America is forcefully calling on Hollywood's major studios to take a stand on the purported use of their members' works as AI training data.

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Writers Guild Calls on Studios to Take “Immediate Legal Action” Against AI Companies

After spending months on strike against the movie and TV studios in terms of how they might use artificial intelligence, the Writers Guild of America is now calling on those studios to wake up and take action against how tech companies have been using AI.  The WGA East and West sent a joint letter on Wednesday, December 11 to top Hollywood CEOs at Warner Bros. Discovery, Paramount Global, Disney, NBCUniversal, Sony, Netflix, and Amazon MGM Studi…

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WGA Tells Studios to Stop Letting AI Companies ‘Plunder Entire Libraries’ of Hollywood Writing

The Writers Guild of America has sent an open letter to the CEOs of the top studios in Hollywood calling on them to take “immediate legal action” against artificial intelligence companies that have used archives of decades worth of films and TV shows to train their software.  The open letter comes in response to a Nov. 18 story published by The Atlantic revealing the existence of a data set called OpenSubtitles, which pulled subtitles from every…

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WGA Calls on Studios to Take 'Immediate Legal Action' on AI Companies Using Subtitles to Train Their Models

Letter to studios cites recent article in The Atlantic claiming AI training data set is based on dialogue from more than 53,000 films, 85,000 TV episodes.

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The WGA demands studios take “immediate legal action” against companies that used writers' work to train AI, in a letter to CEOs of Disney, Netflix, and others

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