Netflix offers $300K-$900K salary for a machine learning product manager amid actor and writer strikes over fair compensation and AI concerns.
Sag-Aftra: 87% of actors earn <$26K/year. AI's use in film/TV worries with scriptwriting, generating likenesses, and reducing creative pay.
Negotiations between AMPTP, Sag, and WGA are contentious, leading to strikes. Writers since May, actors joined recently. Hollywood faces standstill.
First joint strike since 1960 may halt Hollywood completely, affecting production in film and television. AMPTP faces challenges with Sag and WGA.
Netflix's new machine learning product manager role aims to boost their platform's leverage and fuel innovation across all areas of business.
The job seeks qualifications in machine learning for broader AI goals. First reported by the Intercept. (Source: The Intercept)
Netflix plans to use AI in a "machine learning" section to enhance its content catalog, learn from successful content, and optimize original production.
AI will shape movies and TV shows on Netflix, learning from success and improving the production of original content.
Netflix seeks a technical director for generative AI in its gaming studio, offering up to $650,000/year. Generative AI can create text, images, and videos.
Netflix's generative AI efforts lead to new Spanish reality dating series "Deep Fake Love" using contestants' deepfake simulations. AI used in gaming for narratives and dialogue.
Disney lists machine learning positions, no salary range specified. CEO Bob Iger hints at potential challenges integrating AI into their business model.
Iger calls actors' and writers' compensation demands "unrealistic". Disney starting to use AI for efficiency and consumer service.