Roundtable explores AI's impact on freelancer compensation in modern media

I was recently part of a roundtable discussion with journalists, union members, high-up politicians, and more, to explore the increasingly-precarious state of modern media, with regards to the work of freelancers and how they're paid.

Predictably, and unavoidably, the discussion quickly turned to AI, and its increasing omnipresence in the media world, which often involves it 'taking' the work of others, often the barely-getting-by freelancers just mentioned, for zero compensation.

But anything can be more powerful than anything if you don't care about the specifics.