Not sure who "Hollywood" is in your statement, but "Hollywood" is mostly the studio scumbags who are trying to make actors and writers obsolete; so yes they're trying to harness Silicon Valley technology to do it... but it's still asshole CEOs across the board.
What few articles point out is that these companies have been riding the gravy train for years on the backs of writers and actors, whose union agreed to an absurd and abusive contract LAST time. That's when the same C-suite trash finagled them out of their royalties by whining that streaming was "new media," when everyone the least bit savvy knew that it was NOT "new media" but in fact the new NORMAL.
So now we have people who don't even get benefits, and scrape by on multiple jobs, finally demanding fair pay a decade later... and the studio/network trash are trying to render them homeless. If you think these guys aren't assholes to the core, look at this: Universal Studios vandalized taxpayer-owned trees to DENY PICKETERS SHADE: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/sag-aftra-strike-uni...
What few articles point out is that these companies have been riding the gravy train for years on the backs of writers and actors, whose union agreed to an absurd and abusive contract LAST time. That's when the same C-suite trash finagled them out of their royalties by whining that streaming was "new media," when everyone the least bit savvy knew that it was NOT "new media" but in fact the new NORMAL.
So now we have people who don't even get benefits, and scrape by on multiple jobs, finally demanding fair pay a decade later... and the studio/network trash are trying to render them homeless. If you think these guys aren't assholes to the core, look at this: Universal Studios vandalized taxpayer-owned trees to DENY PICKETERS SHADE: https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/19/business/sag-aftra-strike-uni...