Ms Informed Newsletter | AI, Writers' Strikes, and the Creative Industries
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This week’s show
Shownotes
The New Yorker on Hollywood and the Writers’ Strikes
CNBC on AI and the Writers’ Strikes
Platformer: What should newsrooms do with AI?
The New York Times on actors joining writers on strikes
Snoop Dogg goes off script to talk about music streaming platforms
Harvard Business Review on how generative AI could impact creative industries
CNN on Universal cutting trees
The Verge interview with Demis Hassabis
Ezra Klein and Demis Hassabis
LA times on what to know about the strike
BBC science on Chat GPT
This week’s distraction
This week’s distraction is the situation in Niger.
”Thousands of coup supporters in Niger gathered on Sunday for a rally to cheer on the generals claiming power, as a deadline set by the west African bloc for the military to relinquish control or face possible armed intervention was due to elapse.
The Ecowas bloc, chaired by regional military powerhouse and Niger’s neighbour Nigeria, had given the troops that toppled President Mohamed Bazoum on 26 July a week to return him to power.
Read more in the Guardian here
This week Madhvi read
This week Madhvi is reading How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti. I have not got the answer yet, but will let you know if I do.
This week Rina read
This week Rina read Zadie Smith. I’m on a binge! My current Smith novel is “Swing Time”. I think I have memory loss because I read this book when it first came out but don’t remember anything. So its like reading it again for the first time! Which is also nice.
This week’s inspiration
This week’s inspiration is the actress, comedian, writer, activist, and trade union leader, currently serving as the third national president of the Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA). Watch her on fire about going on strike here.
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