Steve Vansak
Peter CohenEd Zitron sees AI as a union-busting tool.
"This situation isn’t just about mass production of content. AI will allow the AMPTP [Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers] to reduce writers’ rooms to one person and one machine, which will in turn reduce the number of people in the Writers Guild of America, which will in turn weaken and eventually destroy one of the most powerful unions in the world."
Artificial Labor
As we speak, we are entering a historical battle between actual labor – those who create value in organizations and the world itself – and the petty executive titans that believe that there are no true value creators in society, only “ideas people” and those interchangeable units who carry out their whims.