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Amid the Hollywood strike — with both SAG-AFTRA and the WGA demanding regulations on how the studios use AI — the streamer is investing in the growth of its AI team.
As SAG-AFTRA and the Writers Guild of America (WGA) are on strike — with one of the main points being over how studios want to use artificial intelligence — it looks like Netflix is shelling out some serious dough into growing their team of AI practitioners.
We’re talking a lot of money.
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The streamer has listed a Project Manager position for their Machine Learning Platform (MLP), with the job posting noting that Netflix will offer up to $900,000 for the position.
“We are creating a new Product Management role to increase the leverage of our Machine Learning Platform,” the job listing reads.
The Netflix MLP program is explained on the streamer’s research page, with Netflix writing in part, “Historically, personalization has been the most well-known area, where machine learning powers our recommendation algorithms. We’re also using machine learning to help shape our catalog of movies and TV shows by learning characteristics that make content successful. We use it to optimize the production of original movies and TV shows in Netflix’s rapidly growing studio.”
Netflix’s job posting comes amid the Hollywood strike — with both SAG-AFTRA and the WGA demanding regulations on how the studios — aka the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) — use AI.
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SAG and AMPTP cannot agree on specific details regarding compensation and consent, with the actors union wanting to be involved in individual uses of AI, a sticking point for AMPTP.
The WGA, meanwhile, has concerns regarding how AI could impact their credits or residuals. The union has stated that it will allow the use of artificial intelligence as a tool to help writing, but only if it won’t affect their writing credits.
In fact, it was Netflix itself that recently used AI technology as a story point for the dystopian sci-fi series Black Mirror. A Season 6 episode — which was released last month — featured a Netflix-like streamer using artificial intelligence to use the likeness of actress Salma Hayek without her consent.
Actor Rob Delaney — who is one of the stars featured in the ensemble cast of the episode titled, “Joan Is Awful” — spoke to Intercept regarding Netflix posting the AI Project Manager position — and offering a giant salary — while Hollywood is striking.
“So $900k/yr per soldier in their godless AI army when that amount of earnings could qualify thirty-five actors and their families for SAG-AFTRA health insurance is just ghoulish,” Delaney said. “Having been poor and rich in this business, I can assure you there’s enough money to go around; it’s just about priorities.”
Kourtney Mary Kardashian (born on April 18, 1979) is an American entrepreneur, socialite and reality television personality who gained fame as a cast member of Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Kourtney and Khlou00e9 Take Miami.nShe is the oldest child of Kris Jenner and defense attorney Robert Kardashian, the sister of socialite Kim Kardashian and Khloe Kardashian, and the stepdaughter of Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner.nKourtney Kardashian was born in Los Angeles and is the oldest child of late attorney Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner (nu00e9e Houghton) and is the sister of Kim, Khlou00e9 and Rob Kardashian. She is of Armenian descent (father) and Dutch-Scottish American (mother) descent. Robert Kardashian, best known for being O. J. Simpsonu2019s lawyer during his murder trial, died on September 30, 2003. Her mother divorced Robert Kardashian in 1989 and married former Olympian Bruce Jenner in 1991.nKardashian attended the Roman Catholic all-girls school Marymount High School. Following graduation, she left California to move to Dallas where she attended Southern Methodist University for two years. She then moved to Tucson, Arizona, and attended the University of”,”bio_source”:”custom”,”is_celebrity”:true,”tags”:{“cf_slug”:”kourtney-kardashian”,”cf_element”:”person”,”cf_guid”:”ea557661-3f9b-4a2f-9fd1-60f7e25fbac7″},”slug”:”kourtney-kardashian”,”ads_enabled”:true,”is_unlisted”:false,”order_date”:”2010-03-23T02:36:44.000000Z”,”hashtags”:[“KourtneyMaryKardashian”]},”toofab:person:11e449e4-4d0f-5d05-a855-f4a24671ffdb”:{“_schema”:”pbj:toofab:people:node:person:1-0-0″,”_id”:”11e449e4-4d0f-5d05-a855-f4a24671ffdb”,”status”:”published”,”etag”:”d2f97395a9abf29357e62b4e8d3e60fa”,”created_at”:”1272067627000000″,”title”:”Lance Bass”,”bio”:”
James Lance Bass (born May 4, 1979), best known as Lance Bass, is an American pop singer, dancer, actor, film and television producer, and author. He grew up in Mississippi and rose to fame as the bass singer for the American pop boy band ‘N Sync. ‘N Sync’s success led Bass to work in film and television. He starred in the 2001 film On the Line, which his company, Bacon & Eggs, also produced. Bass later formed a second production company, Lance Bass Productions, as well as a now-defunct music management company, Free Lance Entertainment, a joint venture with Mercury Records.nAfter completion of ‘N Sync’s Pop Odyssey Tour, Bass moved to Star City, Russia in much publicized pursuit of a seat on a Soyuz space capsule. Bass was certified by both NASA and the Russian Space Program after several months of cosmonaut training, and planned to join the TMA-1 mission to the International Space Station. However, after his financial sponsors backed out, Bass was denied a seat on the mission.nIn July 2006, Bass revealed that he is gay in a cover story for People magazine. He was awarded the Human Rights Campaign Visibility Award in October 2006, and released an autobiography, Out of Sync, in”,”bio_source”:”custom”,”is_celebrity”:true,”tags”:{“cf_slug”:”lance-bass”,”cf_element”:”person”,”cf_guid”:”54757de8-65b1-435a-d86a-d0af35d6a26f”},”slug”:”lance-bass”,”ads_enabled”:true,”is_unlisted”:false,”order_date”:”2010-04-24T00:07:07.000000Z”,”hashtags”:[“JamesLanceBass”,”JamesLanstenBass”,”NSYNC”]},”toofab:person:9fe10350-165d-5879-b364-7268cfb10e8b”:{“_schema”:”pbj:toofab:people:node:person:1-0-0″,”_id”:”9fe10350-165d-5879-b364-7268cfb10e8b”,”status”:”published”,”etag”:”829f52950e7318e8e2be89337399a0d6″,”created_at”:”1296044596000000″,”title”:”Britney Spears”,”bio”:”
Britney Jean Spears (born December 2, 1981) is an American recording artist and entertainer. Raised in Kentwood, Louisiana, Spears began performing as a child, landing acting roles in stage productions and television shows. She signed with Jive Records in 1997 and released her debut album in 1999. During her first decade within the music industry, she became a prominent figure in mainstream popular music and popular culture, followed by a much-publicized personal life. Her first two albums established her as a pop icon and broke sales records, while title tracks “…Baby One More Time” and “Oops!… I Did It Again” became international number-one hits. Spears was credited with influencing the revival of teen pop during the late 1990s.nIn 2001, she released her third studio album Britney and expanded her brand, playing the starring role in the film Crossroads. She assumed creative control of her fourth studio album, In the Zone released in 2003, which yielded chart-topping singles “Me Against the Music”, “Toxic” and “Everytime”. After the release of two compilation albums, Spears experienced personal struggles and career went under hiatus. 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Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932), also known as Liz Taylor, is an English-American actress. She is known for her acting talent and beauty, as well as her Hollywood lifestyle, including many marriages. Taylor is considered one of the great actresses of Hollywood’s golden age.nThe American Film Institute named Taylor seventh on its Female Legends list.nTaylor was born in Hampstead, a wealthy district of north-west London, the second child of Francis Lenn Taylor (1897u20131968) and Sara Viola Warmbrodt (1895u20131994), who were Americans residing in England. Taylor’s older brother, Howard Taylor, was born in 1929. Both of her parents were originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. Her father was an art dealer and her mother a former actress whose stage name was ‘Sara Sothern’. Sothern retired from the stage when she and Francis Taylor married in 1926 in New York City. Taylor’s two first names are in honour of her paternal grandmother, Elizabeth Mary (Rosemond) Taylor. A dual citizen of the UK and the U.S., she was born a British subject through her birth on British soil and an American citizen through her parents.nAt the age of three, Taylor began taking ballet lessons”,”bio_source”:”custom”,”is_celebrity”:true,”tags”:{“cf_slug”:”elizabeth-taylor”,”cf_element”:”person”,”cf_guid”:”64a36a4c-a625-4306-c559-260d419493ad”},”slug”:”elizabeth-taylor”,”ads_enabled”:true,”is_unlisted”:false,”order_date”:”2010-03-23T02:33:11.000000Z”,”hashtags”:[“DameElizabethTaylor”,”ElizabethRosemondTaylor”,”ElizabethTaylor”,”LizTaylor”]},”toofab:person:b760dd7b-48d2-5a0b-81b4-11ad3b27d058″:{“_schema”:”pbj:toofab:people:node:person:1-0-0″,”_id”:”b760dd7b-48d2-5a0b-81b4-11ad3b27d058″,”status”:”published”,”etag”:”04e6e3ecf76da7f9e0e333e095a513a0″,”created_at”:”1269312624000000″,”title”:”Marilyn Monroe”,”bio”:”
Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926u00a0u2013 August 5, 1962), born Norma Jeane Mortenson, but baptized Norma Jeane Baker, was an American actress, singer and model. After spending much of her childhood in foster homes, Monroe began a career as a model, which led to a film contract in 1946. Her early film appearances were minor, but her performances in The Asphalt Jungle and All About Eve (both 1950) were well received. By 1953, Monroe had progressed to leading roles. Her “dumb blonde” persona was used to comedic effect in such films as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). Limited by typecasting, Monroe studied at the Actors Studio to broaden her range, and her dramatic performance in Bus Stop (1956) was hailed by critics. Her production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions, released The Prince and the Showgirl (1957), for which she received a BAFTA Award nomination, and she received a Golden Globe Award for her performance in Some Like It Hot (1959).nThe final years of Monroe’s life were marked by illness, personal problems, and a reputation for being unreliable and difficult to work with. The circumstances of her death, from an”,”bio_source”:”custom”,”is_celebrity”:true,”tags”:{“cf_slug”:”marilyn-monroe”,”cf_element”:”person”,”cf_guid”:”3e8b945a-e1da-42b8-bf47-931f45da6c7c”},”slug”:”marilyn-monroe”,”ads_enabled”:true,”is_unlisted”:false,”order_date”:”2010-03-23T02:50:24.000000Z”,”hashtags”:[“MarliynMonroe”,”MarylinMonroe”,”NormaJeaneMortensen”,”NormaJeaneMortenson”]},”toofab:person:cf454ae3-9fbb-5bb1-8dcb-1cf3075e4aae”:{“_schema”:”pbj:toofab:people:node:person:1-0-0″,”_id”:”cf454ae3-9fbb-5bb1-8dcb-1cf3075e4aae”,”status”:”published”,”etag”:”4c779524e41c290145cf541c5e6e4acf”,”created_at”:”1350597819000000″,”title”:”Janet Leigh”,”is_celebrity”:true,”tags”:{“cf_slug”:”janet-leigh”,”cf_element”:”person”,”cf_guid”:”cc5116cf-8af9-408b-8eca-3a6cf39b9cb3″},”slug”:”janet-leigh”,”ads_enabled”:true,”is_unlisted”:false,”order_date”:”2012-10-18T22:03:39.000000Z”},”toofab:person:d77242a7-ed48-5db2-91e4-cefb3695f64f”:{“_schema”:”pbj:toofab:people:node:person:1-0-0″,”_id”:”d77242a7-ed48-5db2-91e4-cefb3695f64f”,”status”:”published”,”etag”:”ad35ea93cfaaeb7bb64726a8db04aee0″,”created_at”:”1343855450000000″,”title”:”Fran Drescher”,”is_celebrity”:true,”tags”:{“cf_slug”:”fran-drescher”,”cf_element”:”person”,”cf_guid”:”62437132-4ec4-40e4-9a46-a63561f7d6a1″},”slug”:”fran-drescher”,”ads_enabled”:true,”is_unlisted”:false,”order_date”:”2012-08-01T21:10:50.000000Z”}} )); }); ]]>