Hollywood creatives are training the AI that might replace them
theanonymousone · hn · 2026-08-22
A Guardian report exposes a harsh reality: to make ends meet, Hollywood writers, illustrators, and sound designers are being forced to help train AI models. Facing the threat of job loss, these creatives accept jobs from tech companies or studios to provide data annotation and creative direction for the very systems that may displace them.
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