Well if this isn't Hollywood, Part II.

About 18 months ago, both the writer's and actors unions went on strike. This shut down Hollywood production, something that was still reeling from the COVID lockdowns. Since that time, movie studios cancelled a number of projects, causing employment within the industry to be slashed.

We covered a number of articles detailing how many people are out of work. The trickle down effect is taking place, with people who were not part of the strikes feeling the pinch. Even those within the unions are finding their services no longer required.

It seems journalists, at least at the Guardian, did not learn from their Hollywood counterparts. For some reason, they appear to believe they not at risk of disruption.

This is not the case. It is something that is being driven home very quickly.

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Another Industry In Demise And Workers Striking

Traditional media is being disrupted. This is across the board, no matter what the specific medium. Movies are not the only sector that is facing massive job losses. The same is true for print along with television.

AI is no longer on the horizon. It is here as evidence by the headline above.

Staff at The Guardian have been left “deeply disturbed” by bosses’ decision to use artificial intelligence during walkouts over the sale of The Observer.

Katharine Viner, the editor of The Guardian, and Anna Bateson, Guardian Media Group’s chief executive, have been accused of “hypocrisy” by journalists who claim that the technology was used to help write headlines on four days in December.

They are deeply disturbed? Unfortunately, they can be disturbed all they want. The relationship, especially when going on strike, is adversarial. This is the basics of negotiations.

Of course, in the past, with knowledge work, there were usually few choices from management standpoint. Without the ones providing the services, in this case writing articles, things went into lockdown.

Generateive AI is changing that. This is just a taste of what is to come.

Over the next 18 months, these people will not be required. The models we will be dealing with in mid 2026 will eclipse what human writers can produce. There are already models with some basics in reasoning built in. It is only going to expand.

What is ironic is each of these journalists likely uses AI to supplement their work. As college students all over the world are finding out, the capability to write papers exists. It is only a mater of time before the publications start to utilize this to a larger degree.

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You can expect more articles like this.

Around the corner, we are looking at Grok3, ChatGPT o3, and Llama4. These are likely to be far advnaced over the what is available now.

In fact, o3 by OpenAI is another evolution on the Strawberry like of models, bringing reasoning to the public. This will likely be a fee based model, something that companies can easily afford.

People need to realize that technology is deflaitonary. The value of labor is being driven into the ground, especially when it comes to knowledge work.

Yet, while this is happening, employees are asking for more.

This is a trend that will not stop. In fact, I expet it to pick up throughout the course of this year.