Netflix just revealed the cast for Season 6 of its reality competition The Circle, featuring an AI bot disguised as a human player named "Max." The bot will chat, strategize, and flirt alongside human contestants competing for the $100,000 grand prize. It turns the show into a mainstream Turing test to see if humans can catch the bot before getting outplayed.
The Writers Guild of America just voted to end its five-month strike after securing a contract that puts strict limits on generative AI. Studios can no longer force writers to use tools like ChatGPT, and AI cannot write or rewrite literary source material. Why it matters: Hollywood just set the first major labor precedent protecting creative jobs from AI automation.
Netflix just posted a job opening for an AI Machine Learning Program product manager with a salary reaching up to $900,000. The role aims to leverage machine learning to optimize film and TV production. With Hollywood actors and writers on strike partly over AI protections, studios are only doubling down on automation.
