Hollywood Unions Push for Limits on AI and Chatbots Amid Industry Transformation.

Unions representing Hollywood writers and actors are seeking to regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and similar technologies in the entertainment industry. The Writers Guild of America is seeking to ensure that no literary material can be written or rewritten by chatbots, and that studios cannot use chatbots to generate source material that is adapted to the screen by humans. Meanwhile, the actors' union, SAG-AFTRA, is flagging contracts in which studios appear to claim the right to use their members' voices to generate new performances. The unions are also pressing their case to ensure that AI does not receive a writer's credit on a project.