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AI is the wild card in Hollywood's strikes. Here's an explanation of its unsettling role
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FILE - Members of the The Writers Guild of America picket outside Fox Studios on Tuesday, May 2, 2023, in Los Angeles. Getting control of the use of artificial intelligence is a central issue in the current strikes of Hollywood's actors and writers, which on Friday, July 21, 2023, entered its second week. - photo by AP Photo/Ashley Landis, File
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Artificial intelligence has surged to the forefront of Hollywood’s labor fights. Standing alongside more traditional disputes over pay models, benefits and job protections, AI technology is the wild card in the contract breakdowns that have led actors and writers unions to go on strike. The technology has pushed negotiations into unknown territory, and the language used can sound utopian or dystopian depending on the side of the table.