"This company Prosecraft (Shaxpir) appears to have stolen a lot of books, trained an AI, and are now offering a service based on that data." For every $100 for movie/show, you are paying around $60 for the IP, marketing & advertisings; while $30 should be in production, but it's not. Production costs are around 50% or more. Except the big talent, only $4 is paid to the people working to make the final product, which CEOs are focusing on. The profits come from the IP and marketing, so CEOs don't mess with that. Clearly, it's the marketing & advertising or the production cost, which needs to come down. But CEOs want to squeeze and replace the people who make the final product, with Ai that can copy and reproduce the World's best human thoughts and choices. Do you want only Ai to make music or movies? Most people think of millionaire movie stars when they think about people who work on movies. But 99.8 percent of actors don't make a living as they entertain you. It's the same with musicians. They don't get gigs regularly or enough money, so they need residuals for their skills being used during film production. People who work on a movie/TV project get less pay upfront, but they get residuals, as long as the movie/show is popular enough to be re-played/re-watched anywhere, except streaming. These residuals become smaller & smaller as time passes. There are no residuals for streaming shows, so people cannot work on it to make a living. With Ai, corporations can pay nothing to World's best writers/musicians/actors by copying their work. CEOs plan to use Ai to replace writers, musicians and even real human faces and bodies. They want to pay $8-$20 one time, to scan your body, and the company owns your face and body forever to use in anything forever, without having to pay you. Ai will copy thoughts and skills too, sort of. Ai copies all your skills and use it forever, while paying you $8-$20 once. It can copy every script you have written and write in your style. It's already being done. This is exploitation to use or own your work without paying you. It means nobody can be an actors/writers/musicians anymore. Why should people's work be used (by corporations to make millions) without giving any pay? https://infiniteconversation.com/ Summary of the 2023 WGA MBA The following is a summary of the deal terms for the 2023 MBA. It is a simplified version of the Memorandum of Agreement (“MOA”), which contains the full text of the new provisions. The language of the MOA controls in the case of any inconsistency with this summary. Unless amended in the 2023 negotiations, the provisions of the 2020 MBA remain unchanged. 1. Term of Agreement The term of the agreement is September 25, 2023 through May 1, 2026. 2. Minimums Increases Most MBA minimums will increase by 5% on ratification of the contract, 4% on 5/2/2024 and 3.5% on 5/2/2025. Some minimums and rates increase less, mostly by 3% each year, while a few rates increase only once or do not increase over the contract. These exceptions are the result of patterns established in the industry. 3. Increased Health and Pension Contribution Rate The Health Fund contribution on reportable earnings will increase 0.5% in the second year of the agreement, from 11.5% to 12%. The Guild also has the right to divert an additional 0.5% in each of the second and third years of the contract from various minimum increases to either the Health Fund or Pension Plan. 4. Increased Health and Pension Contributions for Writing Teams Each writer on a writing team employed for a script will receive pension and health contributions up to the relevant cap as though they were a single writer, rather than splitting the applicable cap. In addition, when a writing team is employed on a series, the contribution for each writer on the team will be made on the full weekly minimum instead of one-half of the weekly minimum. 5. Artificial Intelligence We have established regulations for the use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) on MBA-covered projects in the following ways:
High-budget programs made for ad-supported streaming services (including FAST) get the same initial compensation terms as the equivalent programs made for subscription streaming services, including network primetime script fees for the highest-budget series, as well as protections like span (using the basic cable span cap of $375,000) and premium rates for pilots and backup scripts. These programs will also receive a 2% residual for reuse on the AVOD service. 9. Increased Compensation for Series Employment: Weekly Pay and Staff Writer Script Fees
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Development rooms (aka pre-greenlight rooms) and regular writers’ rooms for television and HBSVOD series will now have requirements regarding the minimum number of writers who must be hired and the duration of their employment. These new provisions go into effect for seasons where the first episode is written after December 1, 2023 assuming ratification in October.
We reached an agreement to renew $250,000 in annual funding for the Showrunner Training Program. 14. Additional Arbitrators We agreed to replace three arbitrators on the panel to hear MBA claims in Los Angeles. 15. Tri-Guild Audit Program We renewed funding for Tri-Guild auditing of residuals payments for the term of the agreement. 16. Other Changes (Company Proposals)
Why is the 'New Right' turning on conservative traditions? Why are conspiracy theories so potent? Why don't humans use wealth and technology in ways that benefit humanity? Renowned historian and 'Sapiens' author Yuval Noah Harari tackles those questions in an extended discussion with MSNBC’s Ari Melber, who asks Harari about his scholarship, its applications, recent AI developments and criticism of Harari's writing. The discussion also covers how history is written and interpreted, storytelling and 'fictions' as a force in society, including 'money' as a fiction; the implications of evolution and Neanderthal DNA; the existence and meaning of God; the enduring impact of America's 'founding fathers'; and Harari's views of his own intellectual reach, success and its perils.
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