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R. Austin Barrow's avatar

The model is just all wrong and that has become increasingly clear. The delivery system is making all the money and the creators are starving.

Whatever deal is struck the corporations will some how manage to find more “unintended consequences” that put more money in their hands than the artists.

WGA and SAG/AFTRA should not bend at all. Wait for the production companies to agree with you. They will come around , and the ones that come first will likely be the big dogs of future production. I could care less if my favorite stories are produced by Amazon or A24. What viewers are looking for is entertainment not labels.

Oh, and we were never your subscribers, but we have always been their fans. I think you are about to figure that out.

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Gary Davidson's avatar

SAG/AFTRA and WGA should be picketing outside of Microsoft. Generative AI is repurposing their content billions of times a day. AI models are scanning, digesting and learning from their blood sweat and tears. That is the pile of money they need to be after. Microsoft just added $154B to their value in ONE DAY with their announcement of ‘Copilot.’ That equals the TOTAL VALUE of Disney. The unions and studios should join arms and go after the companies where their content is creating the most value: Open A!, Meta, Microsoft.

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