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Meredith Stiehm

President of the Writers Guild of America West in 2023

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With AI, companies are proposing to take our work – our words, voices, and likenesses – without our consent, without compensation, or attribution.

Meredith Stiehm

President of the Writers Guild of America West in 2023

In remarks published by the WGA in September 2023, Meredith Stiehm said companies were proposing to use AI to take creators’ words, voices, and likenesses without consent, compensation, or attribution.

President of the Writers Guild of America WestPublished September 21, 2023 · date of remarks not establishedWriters Guild of America

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Writers, actors, directors, musicians, painters, novelists, photographers, poets – I could go on – we make our living by creating art that is unique to each of us. With AI, companies are proposing to take our work – our words, voices, and likenesses – without our consent, without compensation, or attribution. Large language models can be used to scrape the entirety of the internet to “create” a screenplay, or TV pilot in the style of a writer like me. But AI cannot really create. It does not speak from lived experience.

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  • Stiehm introduced herself as speaking on behalf of film and television writers and the broader creative community; 'our work' refers to that group.
  • Later in the same remarks, after arguing that AI copies and repurposes human art, Stiehm said AI has great potential to assist the creative community but must not further threaten writers or the integrity of their work.

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We believe that any future policy on AI must be grounded in three principles: consent, compensation, and protection of jobs for humans.

Meredith Stiehm

President of the Writers Guild of America West in 2023

In remarks published by the WGA in September 2023, Meredith Stiehm said AI policy must be grounded in consent, compensation, and protecting human jobs.

President of the Writers Guild of America WestPublished September 21, 2023 · date of remarks not establishedWriters Guild of America

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AI can only copy that art, repurpose it, and now, try to monetize it. AI is the replacement of human creativity with theft. We believe that any future policy on AI must be grounded in three principles: consent, compensation, and protection of jobs for humans. AI has the great potential to assist the creative community as they make their art – but it must not serve the further threaten writers and the integrity of our work.

What this quote does not say

  • Immediately after the quoted policy principles, Stiehm said AI has great potential to assist the creative community, but must not further threaten writers or the integrity of their work.
  • Stiehm introduced herself as speaking on behalf of film and television writers and the broader creative community, and framed the principles in the first-person plural.

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