Barry Diller, the previous head of ABC, Fox Broadcasting Company, and Paramount and present Chairman and Senior Executive, IAC and Expedia Group, stirred the pot throughout an look Sunday on CBS discuss present “Face the Nation.”
Diller had a number of solutions on Hollywood for host Margaret Brennan, and feedback which can be sure to be controversial.
Among them
*** As a good-faith measure, Diller mentioned the executives and the “most-paid” actors ought to take a 25% pay reduce to try to slender the distinction between those that get extremely paid and those who don’t.
*** He advised a Sept. 1 strike settlements deadline. (*25*), “next year, there’s not going to be many programs for anybody to watch. So, you’re going to see subscriptions get pulled, which is going to reduce the revenue of all these movie companies, television companies, the result of which is that there will be no programs.”
*** That “perfect storm,” Diller mentioned,” “will potentially produce an absolute collapse of an entire industry.”
*** Artificial intelligence fears are “overhyped,” Diller claimed. “Yes, you can ingest all this stuff and spit out something that sounds like Shakespeare, but guess what? It is not original Shakespeare. And writers will get assisted, not replaced. Most of these actual performing crafts, I don’t think are in danger of artificial intelligence.”
Diller additionally mentioned a leadig group of publishers, which he refused to call, are considering authorized motion to forestall AI from scraping and utiizing their information with out compensation. He was imprecise on the main points of who, what and when.
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