I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

Wired | Mon, 11 May 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Hollywood's lost craft,
Writers turned to AI tasks—
Contracts drown their dreams.

For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.

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