Editors note: Anthony McCarten has been nominated for two adapted screenplay Oscars, for The Theory of Everything and The Two Popes.
Here he writes about AI, a big issue in the WGA talks with studios that broke down, leading to the current writers strike. We now have a new name for writers: SLMs, Small Language Models.
I am an SLM, an organic being with a mysterious desire to express itself. What I do is write about my fellow human beings, and about the world in which human beings live, and do so as best I can.
Up till recently I have been only one of millions engaged in this enterprise, one practiced exclusively by other organic beings.
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