Studios, WGA agree on deal allowing AI to train on writers’ material for pay, credit

The Writers Guild of America’s tentative labor agreement reached with studios Sunday — which would put an end to the guild’s months-long strike if members vote in favor — will allow studios to use writers’ work to train artificial intelligence models. However, writers will be credited and paid for any scripts to which they contribute, an individual with knowledge of the agreement told The Wall Street Journal. That assurance will remain in play even if a screenplay is at all crafted using the quickly evolving technology — which has creatives...