Faced with a strike by actors and screenwriters, Netflix offers an AI job for $900,000 a year

Faced with the strike of actors and screenwriters, Netflix offers a job in the AI for $900,000 annually. The situation is currently very tense in Hollywood.

When will the strike of actors and writers in Hollywood end? It seems that the big companies are ready to engage for a long battle, which motivated Netflix to offer a job for a machine learning manager. This position would be paid between $300,000 and $900,000 a year, where many actors earn about $200 a day, according to SAG-AFTRA. The role that AI will play in entertainment is one of the main elements contested by strikers.

Netflix offers $900,000 annual AI job in response to the strike by actors and writers

According to the job offer, artificial intelligence will be used to “create good content” and not simply develop new algorithms to recommend series and films. The offer also makes a strong suggestion that the streaming juggernaut would make a far bigger effort to incorporate AI into "all aspects of its business." The use of AI by Netflix "to optimize the production of original films and TV series" is covered in detail on the business website.

This is not the only position around AI that promises a huge salary. According to The Intercept, Netflix is also seeking a technical director for generative AI at their young video game business, with a potential yearly pay of $650,000. These efforts are already bearing fruit, as Netflix is currently broadcasting a Spanish Deep Fake Love, a reality TV show that scans participants' faces to create AI-generated deepfakes and its video game studio uses generative AI to compose a story and dialogues.

The situation is currently very tense in Hollywood

All this comes after the striking actors rejected a proposal from the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) which offered $200 for actors who agreed to have their virtual representations scanned so that they could be used in AI-enhanced CGIs, without any time limit. SAG-AFTRA explains that the company will “own the scan, their image, their representation and will be able to use it for eternity in projects it wants without consent or compensation.”