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Protest

As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900,000 AI Job

As Hollywood executives insist it is “just not realistic” to pay actors — 87 percent of whom earn less than $26,000 — more, they are spending lavishly on AI programs.

While entertainment firms like Disney have declined to go into specifics about the nature of their investments in artificial intelligence, job postings and financial disclosures reviewed by The Intercept reveal new details about the extent of these companies’ embrace of the technology.

In one case, Netflix is offering as much as $900,000 for a single AI product manager.

Hollywood actors and writers unions are jointly striking this summer for the first time since 1960, calling for better wages and regulations on studios’ use of artificial intelligence.

Source: As Actors Strike for AI Protections, Netflix Lists $900,000 AI Job

TAX

Netflix: What’s the Scam? – Michael West

Netflix: What’s the Scam?

Netflix Australia has produced a brilliant fantasy. Suspend disbelief now! Netflix claims it made a loss in Australia last year, in the year of Covid when we were locked down watching too much Netflix. You can watch this latest Netflix fantasy for just $41, the price of its financial statements from the corporate regulator ASIC. What’s the scam? Netflix’s 2020 fantasy accounts show revenue in Australia of just $20.5m. If you assume their 12m subscribers here pay a basic rate of $10 a month, that’s $1.4bn in revenue. So what happened to this $1.4bn? Netflix and its co-conspirator EY are “doing a Google”, that is, the caper Google used to rely on to pay zero tax before it was forced to resort to another scam. They just book their income here to an associate offshore and the minuscule amount of income they book here is “service” fees from Netflix in the Netherlands and the US. Tax seeped in at just $581k. They claim they actually turned cashflow negative in the year of Covid.

Source: Netflix: What’s the Scam? – Michael West

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

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ABC

Netflix won’t tell Australian stories. We need the ABC for that, says Mark Scott | Media | The Guardian

Mark Scott says it would be a shame if Australian television goes the way of Australian film, representing a tiny percentage of the box office

via Netflix won’t tell Australian stories. We need the ABC for that, says Mark Scott | Media | The Guardian

Murdoch Media

News Corp blasts Netflix and Google over GST

News Corp chief Julian Clarke called for a 'level playing field' with foreign interlopers, singling out Netflix.

News Corp blasts Netflix and Google over GST.