WGA Blocked AI… BUT Did It Miss This Loophole?

The WGA deal banned AI as a “writer.” But it didn’t stop studios from training AI on decades of scripts.
Now, major players like Lionsgate are building custom models trained on Hunger Games, Twilight, and John Wick — while writer incomes continue to fall.

This episode unpacks how studios are quietly normalizing AI tools across storyboarding, VFX, and even dialogue… all while claiming they’re not replacing writers. With 2026 contract negotiations looming, the future of storytelling — and who controls it — hangs in the balance.

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🔍 Key Takeaways:

• What the 2023 WGA contract really protects — and what it doesn’t

• Lionsgate’s Runway partnership and Netflix’s use of AI in El Eternauta

• How AI is already used in final shots, previs, pitch decks, and localization

• Why creators are afraid to admit using AI — and how that culture of silence hurts everyone

• WGA’s new 2024 pressure campaign: protecting IP from unapproved ingestion

• The tools that are reshaping production (text-to-video, AI relighting, beat-swap engines)

• How to protect your script: timestamp decisions, negotiate boundaries, demand disclosures

⚠️ Bottom Line:

AI’s not just a tech layer anymore—it’s a training engine.
Studios own the libraries. Writers wrote the lines. Who owns the future of storytelling?

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