{"id":72218,"date":"2024-07-26T01:56:16","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T01:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/926a2a4853d23d653e756e799e9e0328"},"modified":"2024-07-26T01:56:16","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T01:56:16","slug":"ai-concerns-spur-video-game-workers-to-go-on-strike-starting-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/ai-concerns-spur-video-game-workers-to-go-on-strike-starting-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"AI concerns spur video game workers to go on strike starting Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"article-gating gated-overlay show-gate\" readability=\"24.90543071161\">\n<div class=\"article-gating-wrapper\" readability=\"28.62265917603\">\n<p>Join Fox News for access to this content<\/p>\n<p>You have reached your maximum number of articles. Log in or create an account FREE of charge to continue reading.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-gating-legal tablet-desktop\" readability=\"21.43949044586\">By entering your email and pushing continue, you are agreeing to Fox News&#8217; <span class=\"waslinkname\">Terms of Use<\/span> and <span class=\"waslinkname\">Privacy Policy<\/span>, which includes our <span class=\"waslinkname\">Notice of Financial Incentive<\/span>. <\/div>\n<p><span>Please enter a valid email address.<\/span><\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-gating-footer\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Having trouble? Click here.<\/span><\/footer>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><span class=\"waslinkname\">Video game<\/span> performers with SAG-AFTRA will strike beginning Friday as AI &#8220;loopholes&#8221; have caused concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning at 12:01 Friday morning, video game voice actors and motion capture performers under the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists will strike over artificial intelligence protections.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second strike for SAG-AFTRA performers in video games. While the union has conceded that wages and job safety have made gains in video game contracts, AI in interactive media continues to be a source of insecurity.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\"><strong>TENS OF THOUSANDS OF GAMERS DESCEND ON LAS VEGAS FOR THE EVO TOURNAMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SAG-AFTRA Chief Contracts Officer Ray Rodriguez shared at the presser on Thursday that some performers&#8217; work may be treated as &#8220;data&#8221; under <span class=\"waslinkname\">current AI guidance<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We strike as a matter of last resort. We have given this process absolutely as much time as we responsibly can. We have exhausted the other possibilities, and that is why we\u2019re doing it now,&#8221; said Rodriguez.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/343\/192\/AP24207710279901.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/686\/384\/AP24207710279901.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"192\" width=\"343\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/672\/378\/AP24207710279901.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1344\/756\/AP24207710279901.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"378\" width=\"672\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/931\/523\/AP24207710279901.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1862\/1046\/AP24207710279901.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"523\" width=\"931\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/720\/405\/AP24207710279901.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1440\/810\/AP24207710279901.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ai-concerns-spur-video-game-workers-to-go-on-strike-starting-friday.jpg\" alt=\"SAG-AFTRA workers protest outside Paramount Pictures\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\" readability=\"12.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"20\">\n<p><span>SAG-AFTRA captains Iris Liu, left, and Miki Yamashita, center, and SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland lead a cheer for striking actors outside Paramount Pictures studio, Nov. 3, 2023, in Los Angeles. Hollywood&#8217;s video game performers voted to go on strike Thursday, July 25, 2024, 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.<\/span> <span>(AP Photo\/Chris Pizzello)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Nearly two years of negotiations with gaming creators like Warner Brothers and the Walt Disney Company have led to the strike.<\/p>\n<p>SAG-AFTRA\u2019s negotiating committee shared with the AP that the definition of &#8220;performer&#8221; may differ between the union and the gaming companies.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\"><strong>AMERICAN LEGION EMBRACES VIDEO GAMES<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Audrey Cooling, a spokesperson for the gaming companies involved, &nbsp;with the AP that the companies&#8217; offer &#8220;extends meaningful AI protections.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cooling added, &#8220;We are disappointed <span class=\"waslinkname\">the union has chosen<\/span> to walk away when we are so close to a deal, and we remain prepared to resume negotiations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-ct inline\">\n<div class=\"m\"><picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/343\/192\/GettyImages-1756857468.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/686\/384\/GettyImages-1756857468.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"192\" width=\"343\"><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/672\/378\/GettyImages-1756857468.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1344\/756\/GettyImages-1756857468.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"378\" width=\"672\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/931\/523\/GettyImages-1756857468.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1862\/1046\/GettyImages-1756857468.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"523\" width=\"931\"><source media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/720\/405\/GettyImages-1756857468.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1, https:\/\/a57.foxnews.com\/static.foxnews.com\/foxnews.com\/content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/1440\/810\/GettyImages-1756857468.jpg?ve=1&amp;tl=1 2x\" height=\"405\" width=\"720\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/ai-concerns-spur-video-game-workers-to-go-on-strike-starting-friday-1.jpg\" alt=\"Voice actors for the Legend of Zelda protest\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<div class=\"info\" readability=\"14.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"24\">\n<p><span>Ari Fromm, left, as &#8220;Todd,&#8221; from &#8220;Bojack Horseman,&#8221; with their dog &#8220;Mr. Peanutbutter,&#8221; and Cameron Laventure, as &#8220;Link,&#8221; from the video game, &#8220;The Legend of Zelda,&#8221; on the Halloween line during the SAG-AFTRA picket, in front of Netflix in Los Angeles, CA, Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023.<\/span> <span>(Jay L. Clendenin \/ Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Andi Norris, an actor, said to the AP &#8220;the performers who bring their body of work to these games create a whole variety of characters, and all of that work must be covered. Their proposal would carve out anything that doesn\u2019t look and sound identical to me as I sit here, when, in truth, on any given week I am a zombie, I am a soldier, I am a zombie soldier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot and will not accept that a stunt or movement performer giving a full performance on stage next to a voice actor isn\u2019t a performer,&#8221; Norris argued.<\/p>\n<p>According to SAG-AFTRA, the video game agreement represents 2,500 &#8220;off-camera (voiceover) performers, on-camera (motion capture, stunt) performers, stunt coordinators, singers, dancers, puppeteers, and background performers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"waslinkname\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join Fox News for access to this content You have reached your maximum number of articles. 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