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.
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.
WGA's letter referenced an Atlantic article last month that reported that subtitles from thousands of movies and TV episodes were included in an AI-training data set used by companies including Facebook parent company Meta and San Francisco-based AI company Anthropic. Anthropic and Meta did not immediately return a request for comment. The WGA letter comes as some studios are in discussions with tech companies that are developing AI tools.
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