Mike Schur

And they don't have the same algorithmic possibilities in terms of making people watch what they want to watch.

So AI is about training their computers to do certain things.

It's about responding to things, learning, giving notes.

It's a lot of different things.

And so the only thing that the Writers Guild can really, for example, can really try to protect for is A,

the boots on the ground labor of writing a TV show.

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.