The streets around New York’s Grand Central Station are bustling with summer crowds when Joe Toplyn, one of the city’s top TV comedy writers, looms into view. The 69-year-old sports baggy shorts, a sun hat — and a white T-shirt that screams “Writers Guild on Strike!”
“We are demonstrating,” he says, explaining that he has just been with WGA members picketing the NBC studios at Rockefeller Plaza.
There is a striking 21st-century plot twist here: even as the union fears that studios might use technologies such as artificial intelligence to cut jobs, Toplyn is embracing generative AI himself — for laughter.
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