Then it needs to collapse. If you can't figure out how to pay your workers a full, living wage and share some profit while grossing billions, paying yourself hundreds of millions, and making wall street analysts happy with your numbers, your industry needs to be fucking rubble. https://t.co/OI5hvPLRwf
— David Simon (@AoDespair) July 16, 2023
“Then it needs to collapse. If you can’t figure out how to pay your workers a full, living wage and share some profit while grossing billions, paying yourself hundreds of millions, and making wall street analysts happy with your numbers, your industry needs to be fucking rubble.” [ICTD]
WaPo has an article on the strike here. As a key part of this strike being the replacement of labor with computers, it might be useful to remember there are two more parties to this industry, currently being ignored.
They are the audience, who are the ultimate arbiters of the survival of these companies, and the government, which brings a deus ex machina element to the entire context. So what can they do?
Government can promulgate a law that forces every single production of which the union has a part that says the producers of said productions must disclose prominently the characters generated by computer, rather than provided by an actor.
Prominently.
Then the audience can own the success or failure of the actor’s union, of the question of whether entertainment is a human enterprise, or an enterprise in which AI is used in order to “maximize shareholder value,” a phrase that is rapidly entering Sauron territory.
Put the responsibility where it belongs – on the audience.
