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    AI is Hollywood's 'Napster 2001 moment,' entertainment lawyers warn

    by Malia Mendez, Los Angeles Times Jul 12, 2023 5 minutes
    Annie Murphy stars in an AI-inspired Season 6 episode of“ Black Mirror.”.

    Artificial intelligence is a sticking point in the months-long Writers Guild of America strike. It's also among actors' concerns cited in ongoing negotiations with Hollywood studios.

    Always-prescient "Black Mirror" tackles these fears in the first episode of its new season.

    The Season 6 premiere follows tech executive Joan (Annie Murphy), who is horrified to discover that streaming platform Streamberry — a thinly veiled parody of Netflix — has released a prestige drama called "Joan Is Awful," which not only parallels her own life, but uses AI to generate content by surveilling her through her phone. After a sympathetic lawyer (Lolly Adefope) explains that Joan unknowingly consented to this by accepting the platform's terms and conditions, she resorts to increasingly unhinged behavior in an attempt to shut it down.

    While the episode's that Joan's reality is closer than we think.

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