Film and TV studios post AI jobs with salaries up to $1 million

Film and TV studios are trying to hire artificial intelligence experts as their writers and actors are out on strike.

Film and television studios are trying to hire people with expertise in artificial intelligence, even as their writers and actors are out on strike citing the industry’s plans for AI and other concerns. 

Six entertainment companies, including Disney, Netflix, Sony and NBCUniversal, have been advertising for at least 26 positions related to AI in recent weeks, according to an NBC News search of online job listings. The companies are looking to pay many of the potential software developers more than $200,000 a year and, in some cases, far more, the job listings say. (NBCUniversal is the parent company of NBC News.)

Streaming giant Netflix has been advertising 18 positions related to AI or machine learning, according to a search of the company’s jobs site. One of the positions would pay as much as $1 million to develop video games based on recent advances in AI, the ad says. The company jobs page doesn’t say how long the positions have been listed.

A search of job sites turned up eight AI-related open positions at more traditional, establishment media companies. 

Two major unions, representing actors and writers, are on strike after contract negotiations with the studios broke down on an array of issues, including pay and the use of AI. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-write-act-tv-media-text-generative-companies-rcna97544

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