Last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike produced guarantees that Hollywood actors would be informed and compensated if studios used generative AI to reproduce their voices and likenesses, but the.
What just happened? The Screen Actors Guild strike over the use of generative AI in video games is continuing a month after it began, but some progress has been made: 80 titles have agreed to the union’s terms over the use of the technology.
Last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike produced guarantees that Hollywood actors would be informed and compensated if studios used generative AI to reproduce their voices and likenesses, but the agreement didn’t cover performers working in video games. At the end of July, after more than 18 months of negotiations with some of the largest video game companies ended without a deal, members went on strike to receive similar protections from the publishers.
