AI
2024 streaming biz: Bracing for AI and deregulation as the media challenge
December 17, 2024The main story in streaming and in television is the new preponderance of Artificial Intelligence, as its use by the film and television industry threatens not only employees but also the older established moguls’ and brands’...
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The robots are coming! R. U. R.eady for ‘R.U.R. Cabaret?’
June 7, 2024R.U.R. Cabaret, the musical, running about 90 minutes with one intermission, is set in a dystopian future on an island where the robots were originally created to do the work of humans and labor for them...
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Streaming TV biz 2024: AI, decreasing quantity, declining quality
April 16, 2024The industry way of portraying these cutbacks is that there’s now an emphasis on “quality over quantity.” But when one observes what is coming down the pike it’s hard not to see these cutbacks as simply...
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Media unions to Schumer: Make sure AI benefits workers
April 5, 2024The labor movement says Congress must devise laws that benefit, not harm, U.S. workers.
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Early victory on the AI front: AFL-CIO signs pact with Microsoft
December 18, 2023Polls show workers leery of AI eliminating jobs but welcome its potential to make work easier or less monotonous.
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