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WRITERS STRIKE
UK Writers Guild Expresses Solidarity With WGA & Tells Members Not To Work On U.S. Projects For Strike Duration
https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-guild-uk-wggb-solidarity-ban-non-members-1235353404/
Hollywood Hit With Writers Strike After Talks With AMPTP Fail; Guild Slams Studios For “Gig Economy” Mentality
https://deadline.com/2023/05/writers-guild-strike-begins-1235340176/
Mother Jones Organized Against Child Labor 120 Years Ago: Let’s Resume Her Fight
This May Day, in a moment of resurgent child labor, let’s take time to remember and be inspired by Mother Jones.
Mother Jones Organized Against Child Labor 120 Years Ago: Let’s Resume Her Fight
Quinta Brunson,”I’m a member of WGA [Writers Guild of America] and support WGA, and them getting — we, us — getting what we need.” https://apnews.com/article/met-gala-2023-live-updates-a11b4bdf21e9beb09f1b53c6c54135cb
@WGAEastWriters Guild of America, East
@WGAWest Writers Guild of America West
@BernieSanders
Last year, 8 Hollywood CEOs made nearly $800 million, yet pay for TV writers has fallen by 23 percent over the last 10 years. There are nearly 12,000 @WGAWest writers on strike for a fair contract.
GPT-4 Can’t Replace Striking TV Writers, But Studios Are Going to Try
The desire to replace writers with AI is a symptom of the larger problem that the guild is fighting for—which is that companies do not value writers and their work.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkap3m/gpt-4-cant-replace-striking-tv-writers-but-studios-are-going-to-try
MORE STRIKES
Amazon Illegally Fired Activist Workers, Labor Board Finds
The two employees had publicly pushed the company to reduce its impact on climate change and address concerns about its warehouse workers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/05/technology/amazon-nlrb-activist-workers.html
No Paid Sick Leave For You Railroad Workers Either.
https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/115g3ie/no_paid_sick_leave_for_you_railroad_workers_either
Meta workers have reportedly lost faith in Mark Zuckerberg
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/meta-workers-reportedly-lost-faith-mark-zuckerberg-18001223.php
African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize:
https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/
The current and former workers, all employed by third party outsourcing companies, have provided content moderation services for AI tools used by Meta, Bytedance, and OpenAI—the respective owners of Facebook, TikTok and the breakout AI chatbot ChatGPT. Despite the mental toll of the work, which has left many content moderators suffering from PTSD, their jobs are some of the lowest-paid in the global tech industry, with some workers earning as little as $1.50 per hour.
WordPress drops Twitter social sharing due to API price hike
http://WordPress.com has just become the latest major platform or organization to cut its Twitter integrations due to Elon Musk’s brand new high-priced API subscription plans.
https://twitter.com/StrictlyChristo/status/1653513193208295429
“The @CopyrightOffice says a prompt is not enough.
“When an AI technology determines the expressive elements of its output, the generated material is not the product of human authorship. As a result, that material is not protected by copyright.”
https://cyberplayground.org/2023/05/03/educational-cyberplayground-nethappenings-artificial-intelligence/