- Streaming service Netflix is looking for machine learning and AI modelers.
- The company is offering salaries from $100,000 to $900,000. But in doing so, the firm has faced criticism.
- Netflix has posted job openings amid a global strike of screenwriters and actors in Hollywood. They fear AI will take away their jobs.
Netflix has posted three new job openings related to AI and machine learning. Meanwhile, a Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike continues in the US, with members opposing the technology. Protesters are demanding restrictions on the use of software such as ChatGPT.
The firm has offered salaries ranging from $100,000 to $900,000 for the new jobs, according to postings on Linkedin. Two positions involve relocation to Los Gatos, California. That’s where Netflix is headquartered.
In accompanying text, the company emphasized that machine learning and the AI field in general are in high demand. Notably, the organization published the vacancies amid a breakdown in negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and the SAG-AFTRA union.
The parties still haven’t reached a unified solution, putting work on new projects in the near future in jeopardy, Deadline reported.
The publication also published a transcript of the negotiations, according to which AMPTP was unable to find an effective solution to “protect union members from AI.”
Netflix has not yet commented on the situation.
Potential Risks of AI
We previously reported that the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) has classified the threat from uncontrolled development of this technology as existential.. These also include, for example, pandemic and nuclear war.
Fears about the AI sector scaling further have been voiced by both business and academic experts. The former include, for example, Twitter owner Ilon Musk. To the latter is the “godfather of AI,” Dr. Jeffrey Hinton.
And the latter is the “godfather of AI,” Dr. Jeffrey Hinton.