\u201cIt\u2019s very production specific,\u201d said Ruth Fowler, a screenwriter and producer in Los Angeles. \u201cIt\u2019s teaching it how to take our jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fowler wrote and created Rules of the Game, a BBC One drama starring Maxine Peake, and co-wrote the screenplay for Little Disasters, a series for Paramount Plus starring Diane Kruger. But she started training AIs \u201cbecause I was thinking: wow, I\u2019m always broke\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think production is down by 35% or something insane,\u201d she told the Guardian. \u201cSo everybody was like: \u2018what do we do?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
She had to train an AI to devise a detailed schedule for a hypothetical two-day shoot, including identifying necessary filming permits, potential location hazards, daylight conditions for photography, lists of personnel per shot and cast needs such as child protection. She would train the AI to base the plan on documents including emails, a shooting script and other production materials. In another case, she trained an AI how to put together a pitch deck for film and TV ideas \u2013 the kind of work a production executive would do.<\/p>\n
Another creative, an LA documentary director, took a job teaching an AI how to accurately transcribe video footage. He reviewed recordings of a Little League baseball game where the voices were muddled by music and crowd noise to teach it to tease out overlapping sounds. He also had to create a visual guide to each speaker (for example: blond woman with a buttoned-down shirt with a gold necklace) and characterise accents, such as English, Scottish, African American or Asian \u2013 which sparked concern among the freelance workers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would not have embarked on this work if I did not have a realistic and perhaps a bit fatalistic understanding of how the world is working,\u201d he said, requesting anonymity. \u201cThis is simply a thing that will be with us in the future and no amount of abstaining will prevent [it].<\/p>\n
\u201cI describe to friends [that] I was essentially handed a shovel and asked to dig the grave of my profession.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ron Howard is set to release an AI-enabled animated documentary feature about prisoners of war in Vietnam. Photograph: St\u00e9phane Cardinale\/Corbis\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Job opportunities for Hollywood workers have dwindled. Shoot days in LA fell 48% between 2021 and 2025, according to FilmLA Research<\/a>, as the consequences of the pandemic, the writers\u2019 strike and lower investment by the streaming companies took a toll. Across the US, jobs in motion picture and sound recording industries declined 28% from 450,000 in July 2022, the peak of the post-pandemic recovery, to 326,000 in May 2026, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>. Across the wider US economy, 10% to 15% of jobs in the US could be eliminated by AI and more than half of roles reshaped by the technology \u2013 with driverless taxis, software coding and AI translation among prominent examples, according to an April analysis from Boston Consulting Group.<\/p>\n Mercor, Micro1 and Handshake are three of the prominent AI training companies. Micro1 was this week seeking producers<\/a> with \u201cdemonstrated mastery in film, television, digital, or live event production\u201d and more than five years of credited project experience to \u201cdesign and author evaluation tasks that simulate realistic production-management scenarios, such as budget reconciliation, scheduling adjustments, and vendor or crew coordination\u201d. Pay is up to $85 an hour.<\/p>\n
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