Hollywood’s video game performers are going on strike, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections.

Hollywood’s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, throwing part of the entertainment industry into another work stoppage after talks for a new contract with major game studios broke down over artificial intelligence protections. 

The strike — the second for video game voice actors and motion capture performers under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists — will begin at 12:01 a.m. Friday. The move comes after nearly two years of negotiations with gaming giants, including divisions of Activision, Warner Bros. and Walt Disney Co., over a new interactive media agreement.

SAG-AFTRA negotiators say gains have been made over wages and job safety in the video game contract, but that the studios will not make a deal over the regulation of generative AI. Without guardrails, game companies could train AI to replicate an actor’s voice, or create a digital replica of their likeness without consent or fair compensation, the union said.

  • @pum
    3•1 month ago

    I am here because of your reply to the parent comment.

    What im trying to say is, a recording is a mean to capture or create art, which is being done by tools humans use. It can be a creative process, like photography. There are jobs surrounding this field.

    Live performings are still in the game and still generates a lot of money, its not destroyed. Its just that people have more options to choose from nowadays.

    Meanwhile AI is the new possible “human” that can replace the many of us and conflict with our creativity/art. While recordings cant create things by itself, AI can. Theres the difference.

    So you are discussing a topic that doesn’t really correspond to what we are talking about, while thinking its the same situation…

    • FaceDeer
      0•1 month ago

      I was talking about how music recordings used to be perceived. You came in and responded by talking about something unrelated, and then got upset at me because what I was talking about wasn’t what you were talking about.

      All of that stuff you just said right now is irrelevant to the things I was talking about. I know that a recording is meant to capture art that a human made. What does that have to do with how they were perceived back in the 1930s?

      I’m fine with changing topics, but I’m not so fine with being berated for not having been talking about the thing you wanted to talk about in the first place.