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Paramount's 'bloodbath' triggers bloodlust, Netflix issues strict 'guiding principals' on GenAI use, and Nexstar pops a cap in the ol' ownership cap with $6.2B Tegna purchase
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Netflix publishes GenAI ‘guiding principals’ — don’t use it to replace talent, streamer warns
It couldn’t have been easy for the Hollywood talent guilds, who went to the mat two years ago with producers in an effort to ward off GenAI obsolescence, to hear Ted Sarandos bragging last month about using artificial intelligence to create a scene in the Argentinian sci-fi series The Eternaut.
Operating in 190 countries, Netflix produces movies and shows far beyond the reach of collective bargaining, after all. Last week, however, Netflix published what it called “guidelines” on generative AI use that would seemingly quell any concerns that creatives all over the world are about to lose their jobs … at least in the near term. (We reported on this Thursday ahead of everyone at StreamTV Insider.)
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