Actors and writers in Hollywood are striking for a number of reasons, including pay and working conditions - but also because of concerns about artificial intelligence .
fighting against a streaming service when she realises her AI likeness is being used in any way that it chooses.
"One of the things about generative AI is, of course, it's not really original at all. And if we think that we love to see original content rather than content that directly represents content of the past, it's quite unlikely that anyone would be truly entertained by content that was was exceptionally derivative, which is what all the outputs of generative AI systems in fact are. So the writers may be a little bit over-concerned.
"We want some safeguards in place to make sure that we're not replaced by an algorithm into which our our existing work is funnelled and then, like a sausage factory, scripts come out the other end and our job becomes just giving them a polish," she told the Daily podcast."Because that's not creation - that's theft, in our opinion.