![]() ![]() Historic Television Screenwriting Lab for Black Musllim Writers Led By The Blackhouse Foundation and The MPAC Hollywood Bureau Wraps → We are so grateful to Participant, who supported the lab, our partner The Blackhouse Foundation, and the talented industry instructors, Qasim Basir, Hanelle Culpepper, DMA, and Fanshen Cox, for seeing the value of these creators’ voices and stories. While the scripts are written from the lens of Black Muslims, their stories about life, love, adventure, work and family are universal. The Television Screenwriting Lab for Black Muslim Writers was created to begin to open a pathway for writers who have not been represented in television, but whose perspectives and stories are needed now more than ever. Shabazz, Maria Warith Wade, Nadra Widatalla, and Sekinat Jumai Yusuf for completing the lab and generating industry interest in their scripts! “What’s especially scary about it is nobody, including a lot of the people who are involved with creating it, seem to be able to explain exactly what it’s capable of and how quickly it will be capable of more,” says actor-screenwriter Clark Gregg.Congratulations to the inaugural cohort of Black Muslim Television Writers: Maram Ahmed, Desha Dauchan, Aiman Mimiko, Thembisa S. “It’s hard to see how you can prevent the bad actors from using it for bad things,” Hinton told The New York Times. Geoffrey Hinton, an AI pioneer, recently left Google in order to speak freely about its potential dangers. The writers are wrestling with the threat of AI just as concern widens over how hurriedly regenerative AI products has been thrust into society. machine surely doesn’t hurt the WGA’s cause in public opinion. We need to tell the stories.”ĭramatizing their plight as man vs. “There needs to be a human writer in charge and we’re not trying to be gig workers, just revising what AI does. But I don’t know that they believe that, necessarily,” says screenwriter Jonterri Gadson (“A Black Lady Sketchshow”). “Obviously, AI can’t do what writers and humans can do. Now, they see a new, readily available and inexpensive competitor in AI - albeit one with a slightly less tenuous grasp of the human condition. Screenwriters are accustomed to being replaced. Raymond Chandler once wrote “the very nicest thing Hollywood can possibly think to say to a writer is that he is too good to be only a writer.” ![]() If they do, they’re often rewritten many times over. The films they write usually don’t get made. Writers have long been among notoriously exploited talents in Hollywood. “Why have a robot write a script and try to interpret human feelings when we already have studio executives who can do that?” deadpanned Alda. The results weren’t terrible, though they weren’t so funny, either. Actors Alan Alda and Mike Farrell recently reconvened to read through a new scene from “M(asterisk)A(asterisk)S(asterisk)H” written by ChatGPT. The implications for screenwriting are only just being explored. “Human creators are the foundation of the creative industries and we must ensure that they are respected and paid for their work,” the actors union said. The Screen Actors Guild, set to begin its own bargaining with the AMPTP this summer, has said it’s closely following the evolving legal landscape around AI. It’s been used to de-age actors, remove swear words from scenes in post-production, supply viewing recommendations on Netflix and posthumously bring back the voices of Anthony Bourdain and Andy Warhol. “It’s not lost on me that a lot of the most meaningful efforts in tech accountability have been a product of worker-led organizing.”ĪI has already filtered into nearly every part of moviemaking. “It’s definitely a bellwether in the workers’ response to the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on their work,” says Sarah Myers West, managing director of the nonprofit AI Now Institute, which has lobbied the government to enact more regulation around AI. The World Economic Forum this week released a report predicting that nearly a quarter of all jobs will be disrupted by AI over the next five years. “It’s something that requires a lot more discussion, which we’ve committed to doing,” the AMPTP said in an outline of its position released Thursday.Įxperts say the struggle screenwriters are now facing with regenerative AI is just the beginning. The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which bargains on the behalf of production companies, has offered to annually meet with the guild to go over definitions around the fast-evolving technology. It says the studios are stonewalling on the issue. The guild is seeking more safeguards on how AI can be applied to screenwriting. ![]()
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