“My pronouns are pay/me.”
As Breitbart News reported, Hollywood writers walked off the job earlier this month after the major studios failed to reach a new contract with the Writers Guild of America, throwing numerous TV shows and streaming series into jeopardy.
It marks the first time Hollywood writers have walked off the job since the 2007-2008 strike, which lasted three months and brought the industry to a virtual standstill. Striking writers are demanding more generous compensation as the streaming revolution continues to takeover the industry. The guild has argued that the shorter seasons favored by streaming services — with most shows having ten or fewer episodes per season — have been detrimental to writers, who must find work on multiple shows to make ends meet.
They are also worried studios will replace them with artificial intelligence technology, which would render most writers obsolete or reduce them to polishing scripts generated by A.I. applications.
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