LOS ANGELES --- A Hollywood writers' strike broke out this week over pay, with anger and fear at the picket lines fueled by the refusal of studios like Netflix and Disney to rule out artificial intelligence replacing human scribes in the future. With their rapidly advancing ability to eerily mimic human conversation, AI programs like ChatGPT have spooked many industries. Last week the White House summoned Big Tech to discuss the potential risks. As part of the weekslong talks with studios that collapsed on Monday, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) asked for binding agreements to regulate the use of AI. Under the proposals, nothing written by AI can be considered "literary" ...Keep on reading: Hollywood scribes up in arms over tapping AI as writers