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The East and West Coast branches of the union conveyed concerns that the move may be “sacrificing free speech to curry favor with the Trump

The union representing writers on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert is calling for a New York state investigation into Paramount following the cancellation of the show on Thursday, airing concerns that the move may be a form of bribery.

The union’s East and West Coast branches asked that New York state Attorney General Letitia James open an inquiry into “potential wrongdoing” at the company in a strongly worded statement on Friday. The WGA East and West pointed to the precedent of the California State Senate, which in May launched an inquiry into Paramount Global’s controversial $16 million settlement with President Trump over the editing of a Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview in 2024.

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The real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders

The studios fought like hell for the right to fire their writers and replace them with chatbots, but that doesn’t mean that the chatbots could do the writers’ jobs.

Think of the bosses who fired their human switchboard operators and replaced them with automated systems that didn’t solve callers’ problems, but rather, merely satisficed them: rather than satisfying callers, they merely suffice.

Studio bosses didn’t think that AI scriptwriters would produce the next Citizen Kane. Instead, they were betting that once an AI could produce a screenplay that wasn’t completely unwatchable, the financial markets would put pressure on every studio to switch to a slurry of satisficing crap, and that we, the obedient “consumers,” would shrug and accept it.

Despite their mustache-twirling and patrician chiding, the real reason the studios are excited about AI is the same as every stock analyst and CEO who’s considering buying an AI enterprise license: they want to fire workers and reallocate their salaries to their shareholders.

-How the Writers Guild sunk AI's ship: No one's gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can't fire their workers

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*NEWS* WGA statement on Netflix acquiring Warner Bros

The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent. The outcome would eliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers, and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers. Industry workers along with the public are already impacted by only a few powerful companies maintaining tight control over what consumers can watch on television, on streaming, and in theaters. This merger must be blocked.

WGA on Bluesky

Now's the moment to get loud about blocking this merger. Educate those around you, contact your representatives, and post on social media. You can also cancel your Netflix accounts and provide this reason when canceling.

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Some people on the left could really use to shit-talk artists and educators a little less and remember that Hollywood artists and educators in general, respectively, are two of the most powerful and effective vanguards of the US labor movement

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Tip for Finding a Character's Voice

If you're struggling to get your character's voices right or you're finding they're all sounding the same, do a little side project having your characters write letters back and forth to each other. Change the voice to speak however they would with different characters, in different situations, and about different topics that'll be addressed throughout your story (i.e., a boss vs a friend, at work vs at a party, telling a funny story vs telling a sad story). It's a bit of free writing to build your characters and get a better feel for them, but it's also a great tool to reference to make sure you're writing dialogue that's true to your character. Using the right variations in voice can add depth to your character and keep dialogue from getting too flat or inappropriate for the setting. Likewise, if you have a character that's commonly inappropriate, you can explore the ways they would disrupt a situation. It's also a good way to explore their inner thoughts, develop plot points, and build your world. Here's an example from my letters (these are not real things that happen in my book, so no big deal that I'm sharing them): POV character to her twin brother (very close, casual relationship):

I'll ask Gritty to treat ya' with mercy, because somehow ya' spent every free minute pesterin' me at work and I never taught ya' to cut a wedged tenon. Next time you go drinkin', tell Arthur I'm not coming around because I passed. It was good for three pints when I tried it, but I'd guess ya' could get a couple more if you wail about it a little. He'll be feeling too seedy in the morning to remember I'm supposed to be underground, and all the guys up there have pulled the same shite, so they won't rat on ya'.

Same POV character to her aristocratic girlfriend:

I don't figure you would like that much. You think you're not keen on all those hands you have at home, but it's thorny up in the mountains. Apologies for saying so, but you're not exactly a master of common man's work. I'd expect we would need some goats, and they would sooner freeze than lift a foot to keep warm if you're asking. I can't picture you minding a garden or sewing a dress in hand, but hell, you've floored me before. All that's to say nothing of the cold up there. I don't figure a lady from Summer would fare well up in the mountains.