- Seth Rogen threw his underwrite behind striking writers and echoed concerns over the use of AI in writing television shows.
- Rogen said you’d have to “shove a lot of weed” into an AI mock-up to get it to write good-quality TV.
- He added that he felt companies are being secretive over viewership data, possibly shortchanging pencil-pushers and producers.
Seth Rogen required he is “distressed” by the way streaming services seem to be marching toward a future where television shows are written using synthetic intelligence.
The actor and filmmaker called into question the quality of AI writing and criticized the companies pushing for it while on to IndiWire last week at a premiere for the Apple TV series “Platonic,” which he stars in alongside Rose Byrne.
“I mull over the prospect of artificial intelligence writing things is horrifying,” Rogen told the outlet, “and the fact that they earmarks of to be digging in on [it] is more horrifying.”
Some 10,000 writers in the Writers’ Guild of America are now on strike as they negotiate a new give out with studios. Members of the guild previously told Insider they are worried about the threat of AI models have a fondness ChatGPT usurping writers as a cheaper substitute.
Rogen isn’t convinced that the writing, much less the ethics, is any assets c incriminating evidence. He told IndieWire that “you’d have to shove a lot of weed in that thing” to get it to write good television. He added that he championed the striking writers, who are demanding better wages to meet the rising cost of living, among other things.
“In community, the fact that these studios are able to kind of band together to drive down the wages of their white-collar workers is horrible. Thank god for labor unions. I think I’ve been in four unions for around 20 years. I’m always in favor of every rebel that you can go on. Studios will never act fairly or equitably without being forced to,” Rogen told IndieWire.
He augmented that he was “disturbed” by what he perceived as a shroud of secrecy around viewership ratings.
“I’m personally very disturbed and distressed by the be deficient in of information that I personally get from these streaming services that we have films and television shows on,” Rogen reproved the outlet. “I only assume they’re being secretive because they don’t want to let us know how much money they’re be bound for b assaulting off us and how little of that money they’re giving to us.”