Mike Schur

And then we've tried, and actually we're not successful in saying, if you use our material to train your AI, you have to pay us.

Mm-hmm.

That's a fight that everyone is having right now.

There's all those lawsuits about folks who have written novels and books and, you know, historical accounts of different events.

Things that were written by humans have been used to train these computers.

And our argument was, you have to compensate us for that if you're using it to train your machines.

And they would not agree at that moment to that language.

We did reserve our right to go back and negotiate in future years possible compensation for the training, but that's still on the table.

That is yet to be settled.

So they were very resistant to language regarding AI because it's nascent and because they were using it for a billion different things.

And so all we could do, which we insisted on, and which was a major sticking point that was worth striking over,

was to say writers are people.

And the SAG said actors are people.

And it's pretty wild.

Two pretty powerful unions.

Like, that's as far as we could get with these companies is to declare that writers and actors are people.

Net worth somewhere around $260 billion, I think, the last time I checked.

He owns, among other things, Hawaii.

Like, he bought one of the islands of Hawaii, which is an amazing thing to say.

He bought Lanai, which was a— Oh, that's one of the good ones.