‘Digging the grave of my profession’: the Hollywood creatives training AI to do their jobs
TL;DR
Amid a jobs slump, award-winning writers, directors and producers taking on sometimes lucrative temp work teaching AI skills such as screenwriting and production Hollywood creatives are taking gig work to train AI models to replicate their skills in a bid to offset tightening earnings in a trend one compared to being “handed a shovel and asked to dig the grave of my profession”. Experienced and award-winning writers, directors and producers are being paid from $12 to $200 an hour to teach AI models the intricacies of their jobs, from writing a screenplay to devising a shooting schedule.
Nauti's Take
Short term this is real paid work for creatives in a thin market, and the people doing it come away with a sharper sense of where models still break on story structure and scheduling. The catch is the price: hourly rates from 12 to 200 dollars buy craft that took decades to build.
Anyone taking these gigs should read the usage rights and contract term as carefully as the rate.
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