For Leila Cohn, a 39-year-old writer on the Netflix hit “Bridgerton,” AI’s only usefulness to writers is limited to “busy work” such as coming up with names for characters.
But she predicted that studios “could start making incredibly bad first drafts with AI and then hire writers to do rewrites.”
“I think it’s certainly a very scary prospect … It’s very smart that we’re addressing it now,” she said.
In fact, the last Hollywood strike in 2007-08 won writers the right to get paid to watch their shows or movies online — a huge understatement, at a time when streaming was still in its infancy.
Back then, Netflix had barely taken off online watching, and it took more than a decade for the likes of Disney+ and Apple TV+ to catch up.
Even for science fiction writer Ben Ripley, who believes there is no role for AI in writing, it is now “very necessary” to introduce legislation “to put up railings.”
Writers “have to be original,” he said. “Artificial Intelligence is the Antithesis of Originality.”