- Star Wars Andor Creator Tony Gilroy has canceled plans to publish the show’s manuscripts
- Scripts from Season 1 should release but AI is the reason they are not published
- It is part of a growing trend with the content that AI models are trained at
AI companies will do anything to get their hands on material to train AI models -just look at what happens to music flow services. It’s only a matter of time before these companies begin to target other areas of the entertainment industry, but the creator of one of the best Disney Plus shows is already taking an attitude towards the threatening reign of AI.
Tony gilroy, the creator of Star Wars Spin-off series Andorhas pulled the plug on his original plans to publish the manuscripts from the show’s first season for fear that his work could be used as material for training AI models. In an interview with Collider, Gilroy shared: “I would do it. We put it together. It’s really cool. I’ve seen what I loved it. Ai is the reason we’re not.”
The decision to come out is not easy for Gilroy who advertised his plans to launch a site that is not only showing Andor’s Written elements, but also a selection of concept art back in 2023.
Despite this difficult decision prior to the impending release of Andor Season two on April 22 is clear that Gilroy has serious concern about the threat that AI has on creative individuals – and I am glad to see that more artists are interfering to protest for AIS Square in the entertainment industry.
I say that again, we are witnessing a cultural genocide
For AI, ‘permission’ is a word that ceases to exist. Gilroy is just one of the many affected figures that have actively expressed the need to protect their work in a culture where AI infiltrates streaming services daily – mainly for user experience. Still, movies and TV shows even stay open goals for AI to steal for training purposes.
Although notable figures like Christopher Nolan have called for tighter restrictions on AI, this is the first time I have seen the threat that AI is getting a screenwriter to intervene like this as case strikes. But AI has only scratched the surface with movies and TV – you get things like this all the time with music.
A good example is the quiet protest album, Is that what we want?which was released in the light of a British government proposal that allows AI companies to use copy-oriented music to train models and algorithms.
Artists from Kate Bush to Annie Lennox joined together to prepare a quiet album with surrounding tracks with empty creative spaces. While this does not actively make the government change its mind in the proposal, he succeeds in showing what it could mean for the future of the music industry while using the streaming surplus to raise money for music organizations.
Screenwriting writers and musicians must be able to share and publish their work without fear of it being used to improve AI models. Some of us actually like to read the manuscripts behind our favorite shows.
I have no doubt that AI developers will eventually get bored of taking existing manuscripts and music to improve the algorithms and then find a way to infiltrate the creative process completely.
While lots of AI music software can already whip a quick beat (thank you, Suno), how long will it be before AI-generated music albums go mainstream or when has AI-Generated movies become a thing?
