Welcome back to The Rainmaker! This week, a deep dive into a legal issue that’s ready to explode through Hollywood: artificial intelligence. Plus news on Shari Redstone, Elon Musk, Anderson Cooper, Ben Smith’s new hire, and more.
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Happy Monday, I’m Eriq Gardner.
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Welcome back to The Rainmaker! This week, a deep dive into a legal issue that’s ready to explode through Hollywood: artificial intelligence. Plus news on Shari Redstone, Elon Musk, Anderson Cooper, Ben Smith’s new hire, and more.
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| Chat GPT Is Coming for Hollywood |
| Artificial intelligence is already threatening to replace animators, impersonate actors, and make thousands of jobs obsolete. The industry’s biggest union just took its first step to fire back. |
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| Has David Zaslav used ChatGPT? I ask because the Warner Bros. Discovery boss, who everyone knows is out to save a few bucks, has come up a few times in my recent conversations with Hollywood dealmakers. They don’t think Zaz would hire a bot to replace salaried writers just yet, but as for a punch-up job, well, all bets are off.
After all, the prospect of A.I. taking human jobs has escalated rapidly from “Ha, ha, let me just get comfortable in my Matrix coffin” to “OK, so how much time do I have?” Suddenly, everyone I know is nervously assessing its capabilities. Can Stable Diffusion replace animators? What about the... |
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