At a time when artificial intelligence?is largely being seen as a threat to millions of jobs around the world, a job posting by Netflix has gone viral. The reason? The job posting is offering an eye-watering amount as a salary for an AI-related job.
Netflix recently posted a job listing for a product manager on its Machine Learning Platform (MLP).?Machine learning?is a field of artificial intelligence.?The salary ranges from $300,000 (Rs 2.4 crore) to $900,000 (Rs 7.4 crore). The role, which is still open, intends to "increase the leverage" of Netflix's machine learning program.
The product manager role will involve utilizing AI across all aspects of Netflix's business, including content acquisition and personalizing user recommendations.
Also, this is not the only new AI position being offered for crores by Netflix.?
The company is also seeking to hire a technical director for generative AI at its gaming studio for up to $650,000 a year. Generative AI can produce text, images and video from input data, which could be used to create original content or for advertising purposes, as per The Guardian report.?
Netflix¡¯s generative AI efforts have already borne fruit: earlier this month, Netflix premiered a new Spanish reality dating series, Deep Fake Love, in which scans of contestants¡¯ faces and bodies are used to create ¡°deep-fake¡± simulations of themselves, and the company¡¯s gaming department has used AI to produce narratives and dialogue.
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Steaming giant?Netflix has listed?this high-paying AI-related job position?at a time when actors and writers continue to strike over fair compensation and protections from the encroachment of artificial intelligence. According to the Screen Actors Guild (Sag-Aftra), 87% of the guild¡¯s actors make less than $26,000 per year.
The report mentioned that the use of AI in the production of film and television ¨C either to write scripts, generate actors¡¯ likenesses, or cut corners in paying for creative work, has been a major point of contention in negotiations between the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) and Sag and the Writers Guild of America (WGA). Writers have been striking since May; the actors joined earlier this month. The first joint strike since 1960 threatens to bring Hollywood to a complete standstill.
And it's not just Netflix, even Disney has also listed several machine learning-related positions, though it has not specified the salary range. During a recent earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger, who has called actors¡¯ and writers¡¯ demands for greater compensation ¡°unrealistic¡±, hinted at potential issues the company could face in integrating AI into their business model. ¡°In fact, we¡¯re already starting to use AI to create some efficiencies and ultimately to better serve consumers,¡± he said, as reported by journalist Lee Fang.
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