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WGA Calls on Studios to Take 'Immediate Legal Action' on AI Companies Using Subtitles to Train Their Models
"It's time for studios to come off the sidelines," the union tells Hollywood CEOs in open letter
The open letter comes in response to a Nov. 18 story published by The Atlantic revealing the existence of a data set called OpenSubtitles, which pulled subtitles from every Best Picture Oscar-winning film from 1950 to 2016, as well as thousands of episodes of acclaimed TV shows such as “The Sopranos,” “The Simpsons,” “Breaking Bad” and “Seinfeld,” among others. “Having amassed billions in capital on this foundation of wholesale theft, these tech companies now seek to sell back to the studios highly-priced services that plagiarize stolen works created by WGA members and Hollywood labor,” the guild writes. The November 18 Atlantic article “There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing is Powering AI” confirms what was already clear to so many: tech companies have looted the studios’ intellectual property—a vast reserve of works created by generations of union labor—to train their artificial intelligence systems.
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