I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI

After the 2023 Hollywood strike and ongoing TV instability, some writers have turned to AI training work to make ends meet.

Through firms like Mercor and Outlier, they label data, evaluate chatbot answers, and red-team models for safety flaws.

The piece shows how experienced creative workers are being drawn into the low-status labor that helps build generative AI systems.

It also highlights the growing link between entertainment job losses and the expansion of AI-driven media work.