@lupyuen WGA seems to be demanding something reasonable here. I think the jury is still out on how faithfully LLMs can reproduce any given text sufficiently well to count as plagiarism, but it is pretty clear that the creative turns out phrase, plots, cultural commentary, etc, that LLMs produce wouldn't be there without the creativity of the source material which comprises the collective work of many. as a collective, the union has clear standing to argue for how the work of their members can and cannot be used.
the part about rewriting "first drafts" by a machine, seems even more clear cut. like, of course writers shouldn't be made to take lower pay to revise a machine output. if a writer wants to use an LLM as part of their own process, more power to them, but the *human* writer should be paid for their original creative effort