(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . With writers' strike almost resolved, late night about to come back [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2023-10-02 President Joe Biden applauds the agreement the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached with the studios. The broad strokes of the agreement are laid out in a memorandum of agreement (MOA). Alissa Wilkinson for Vox: The exact language of the contract is yet to be released. But from the WGA summary, it appears the union was successful in its effort. The MOA includes increases to minimum wage and compensation, increased pension and health fund rates, improvements to terms for length of employment and size of writing teams (which had been shrinking drastically in recent years), and better residuals (which are like royalties), including foreign streaming residuals. The MOA also lays out terms for artificial intelligence, with an agreement that doesn’t prevent writers or productions from making use of generative AI but prohibits using software to reduce or eliminate writers and their pay. “A writer can choose to use AI when performing writing services, if the company consents and provided that the writer follows applicable company policies, but the company can’t require the writer to use AI software (e.g., ChatGPT) when performing writing services,” the MOA states. Additionally, “the WGA reserves the right to assert that exploitation of writers’ material to train AI is prohibited by MBA or other law” — a major issue given many authors’ recent discovery that their work is being used to train AI owned by Meta and other companies. The full membership of the WGA are expected to vote on accepting the contract today. Meanwhile, the SAG-AFTRA strike continues. New movies and new TV show episodes can start pre-production work, but obviously production and post-production will have to wait on most of them until the actors can come back. Stephen Colbert cites Daily Kos in his Late Show, February 22, 2021. The late night comedians can return to work today, and some of them in fact are returning to work today. On CBS, Stephen Colbert is expected to host a new episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that will air at 11:35 p.m. Eastern. Not sure who the guests are going to be, but I gather the roster includes a dog. In an ad for the new episodes, Colbert asks “Did anyone get indicted?” presumably referring to classified documents salesman and real estate fraudster Donald Trump. Over on NBC, Jimmy Fallon returns at 11:34 p.m. Eastern to host The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers returns at 12:36 p.m. for Late Night with Seth Meyers. And on ABC, Jimmy Kimmel returns for Jimmy Kimmel Live! at 11:50 p.m. Saturday Night Live might return with new episodes this coming Saturday. I’m told John Oliver returned yesterday, but I don’t have cable. Late night comedians are very important, because they frequently provide context that is sorely missing from the late night newscasts in the preceding time slots. Context like that Republicans lie about what they do and have done in the past, they lie about what Democrats do and want, that kind of context. I’ll be watching Colbert and Meyers, and I might post updates. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/10/2/2196838/-With-writers-strike-almost-resolved-late-night-about-to-come-back Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/