Job listings geared in the direction of synthetic intelligence roles have gone up for movie and tv studios regardless of the continued protests from their writers and actors in opposition to using AI. Disney, Netflix, and Sony had been among the many leisure corporations that listed AI-centric roles, providing between $200,000 and greater than $1 million for the correct candidate.
Netflix’s place for an engineering supervisor who would work with the buyer ML mannequin computing and serving foundations requires a minimal of solely three years of expertise, the speed for the place ranges from $180,000 to $900,000, relying on the applicant’s background. The commercial says the particular person will “take Netflix’s ML/AI initiatives to the subsequent degree.”
Different Netflix positions embody an AI technical director which gives a pay vary of $240,000 to $1 million and an engineering director place citing a scale of $330,000 to a whopping $1.8 million yearly. Netflix declined to supply a touch upon the job listings.
In the meantime, Sony AI listed quite a few positions pertaining to “AI ethics” together with a analysis scientist, an AI ethics technical program supervisor, and a analysis scientist centered on human-computer interplay.
Sony AI didn’t instantly reply to Gizmodo’s request for remark, however a spokesperson mentioned in an announcement to NBC Information: “This isn’t a job with the leisure firm. Sony AI, which was established 3 years in the past, is run out of our company headquarters in Japan. The AI Ethics Workplace operates inside Sony AI.”
NBCUniversal listed a job on LinkedIn for a vp of product, personalization, and seek for its Peacock streaming service, a flowery title for constructing machine-learning merchandise, as cited within the function description, which is providing $220,000 to $290,000 per yr.
All of this comes as Hollywood writers will not be solely putting for increased pay however have additionally been on the picket line for greater than three months to battle in opposition to AI taking their jobs.
The Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) proposed a brand new bundle providing increased compensation on Tuesday however the Writers Guild of America, which represents Hollywood writers, shut down the proposal solely hours after the AMPTP launched it to the general public. The provide included a 5% enhance within the wage charges within the first yr of the contract, with a 4% enhance within the second yr and a 3.5% enhance within the third yr which was barely decrease than the WGA’s preliminary proposal of 6% within the first yr and 5% within the second and third years.
The proposal additionally included a ban on generative AI being thought-about “literary materials,” including, “A author won’t be deprived if any a part of the script is predicated on GAI-produced materials in order that the author’s compensation, credit score and separated rights won’t be affected by means of GAI-produced materials.”
Carol Lombardini, the president of AMPTP, mentioned in a assertion:
Our precedence is to finish the strike in order that valued members of the inventive neighborhood can return to what they do greatest and to finish the hardships that so many individuals and companies that service the business are experiencing. Now we have come to the desk with a proposal that meets the precedence considerations the writers have expressed. We’re deeply dedicated to ending the strike and are hopeful that the WGA will work towards the identical decision.
The WGA pushed again in opposition to the proposal, saying in a press launch: “This wasn’t a gathering to make a deal. This was a gathering to get us to cave, which is why, not 20 minutes after we left the assembly, the AMPTP launched its abstract of their proposals.” The assertion continued: “This was the businesses’ plan from the start – to not cut price, however to jam us. It’s their solely technique – to guess that we’ll activate one another.”
NBCUniversal didn’t instantly reply to Gizmodo’s request for remark.
