The reaction to AI reality and AI con cause some to raise pitchforks and others, shovels.
This sad article in The Guardian tells of writers desperate for work, selling out on the way out.
Please don’t think I am blaming them. It is a system that operates this way, cruelly coercing them to dig the graves for others and themselves. The shock of this might cause the rest of us to see how organizing will change the story. And the backlash is very real and very big already.
MORE SOON.
“Job opportunities for Hollywood workers have dwindled. Shoot days in LA fell 48% between 2021 and 2025, according to FilmLA Research, as the consequences of the pandemic, the writers’ strike and lower investment by the streaming companies took a toll. Across the US, jobs in motion picture and sound recording industries declined 28% from 450,000 in July 2022, the peak of the post-pandemic recovery, to 326,000 in May 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Across the wider US economy, 10% to 15% of jobs in the US could be eliminated by AI and more than half of roles reshaped by the technology – with driverless taxis, software coding and AI translation among prominent examples, according to an April analysis from Boston Consulting Group.
Mercor, Micro1 and Handshake are three of the prominent AI training companies. Micro1 was this week seeking producers with “demonstrated mastery in film, television, digital, or live event production” and more than five years of credited project experience to “design and author evaluation tasks that simulate realistic production-management scenarios, such as budget reconciliation, scheduling adjustments, and vendor or crew coordination”. Pay is up to $85 an hour.”
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SB
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