Backlash Targets Netflix After AI Job Posting
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Netflix, one of the oldest and most well-known streaming services, Netflix, is facing a backlash after posting a job description for an AI Producer Manager, which the ad describes as“helping us [Netflix] buy and create great content, helping members choose the right title for them through personalization, to optimizing our payment processing and other revenue-focused initiatives,”
While AI and the lack of protections against it it is fuelling the current Hollywood writer’s strike by WGA and SAG-ATRA, the eye-popping advertised salary for the position of $900K is also drawing the ire of the striking Guild members.
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“So $900k/year per soldier in their godless AI army when that amount of earnings could qualify thirty-five actors and their families for SAG-AFTRA health insurance is just ghoulish,” he said. “Having been poor and rich in this business, I can assure you there’s enough money to go around; it’s just about priorities.”
Elizabeth Benjamin, a writer on shows like Dead To Me, The Flight Attendant, 13 Reasons Why, and Bones took to “X” (Twitter) to share her no-holds-barred contempt for this particular job posting:
Netflix has declined to comment regarding the controversy as of yet.
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