Studios can use AI ‘models’ on writers’ work under tentative pact, WSJ reports

The tentative labor pact between the Hollywood studios and the Writers Guild of America will allow the studios to train artificial intelligence models based on the writer’s past work, wrote Jessica Toonkel and Joe Flint, for the Wall Street Journal. The deal reached will also give the writer’s a key assurance in that “they will receive credit and compensation for work they do on scripts, even if studios partially rely on AI tools,” the WSJ story noted, citing persons with knowledge of the talks. Publicly traded companies that would be impacted include Netflix (NFLX), Amazon (AMZN), Apple (AAPL), Disney (DIS), Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), NBC Universal (CMCSA), Paramount (PARA) and Sony (SONY).