Artificial intelligence is not at the place where it can manipulate writers and creators yet. This is what we heard in February, during an interview with the acclaimed American writer Chris Keyser about the dangers of AI for screenwriters, when he was in the city for a conference. Keyser was the co-chair of the Writers Guild of America’s (WGA) negotiating committee during the 2023 strike by over 11,000 Hollywood film and television writers for better wages and conditions. 

During our conversation, he had said, “We assumed that the studios were so protective of their own work that they would be scared of AI in the same way that writers were. They didn’t behave that way initially. By the end of the negotiation of the contract, (we) negotiated terms that protected writers’ core rights, their right to compensation and credit, and all their additional contractual rights for their material. It said that they can’t be forced to rewrite AI, nor can AI rewrite them, that AI can’t get credit.”

Chris Keyser