Netflix lists $900,000 AI job as actors and writers proceed to strike

That’s as much as $3,500 per day, whereas many actors make $200.

Will this pair of Hollywood strikes ever finish? It seems to be like the large companies are digging in for a protracted battle, illustrated by Netflix’s recent job posting for a machine studying platform product supervisor. The place pays an annual wage of $300,000 to $900,000 at a time when many actors make round $200 a day, according to this SAG-AFTRA contract. The position AI will play in creating future leisure is a key merchandise of debate for each putting events.

The job itemizing signifies that the AI might be used to “create nice content material” and never simply develop new algorithms to suggest reveals and films. The posting additionally alludes to a far-reaching effort by the streaming big to combine synthetic intelligence in “all areas of the enterprise.” A separate part on the company’s website goes on to say that Netflix makes use of AI “to optimize the manufacturing of authentic motion pictures and TV reveals.”

That’s not the corporate’s solely AI-heavy job posting promising an enormous payday. Netflix can be hiring a technical director for generative AI at its burgeoning gaming studio that pays an annual wage of as much as $650,000, as reported by The Intercept. These efforts are already bearing fruit, as Netflix at the moment airs a Spanish actuality relationship collection referred to as Deep Faux Love that scans contestant’s faces to create AI-generated “deepfakes” and its gaming studio employs generative AI to compose narratives and dialogue.

This all comes after striking actors rejected a proposal from the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) that generously supplied employees a one-time $200 day fee for performers to get scanned for future use as AI-enhanced CGI simulacrums eternally, till the top of time. SAG-AFTRA says the corporate would “personal that scan, their picture, their likeness, and be capable to use it for the remainder of eternity in any mission they need with no consent and no compensation.”