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Published: March 14, 2025

SAG-ATTRA video game strike steers through AI protection

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Video game actors who are connected to SAG-Aftra have been on strike for seven months and are not closer to a deal because the big studios refuse to look at AI protection.

Video game actors who are connected to SAG-Aftra have been on strike for seven months and are not closer to a deal because the big studios refuse to look at AI protection.

At the beginning of this week, union negotiator published a document To uncover, as the latest proposal from the studios shows that they are not serious to offer solid protection against AI. Similar to the strikes of the dual authors and the actor in 2023, video players strike a long list of requirements such as higher wages, better advantages and protection against AI. As with the previous strikes, anything but Ai has anything but Was worked out Long before the two sides can agree on the future of technology.

In October, the two sides stated that 24 of the 25 areas in which they negotiated, with the AI ​​was the last one on the table. This question remains five months later, although no page is ready to stir.

The document Published by SAG-AFTRA, shows that the provisions proposed by the studios would enable them to create earlier work without the express consent of the actors to create AI replicates and create several services to consist of AI-generated work, while they are gaps in the language, which consists of the order of AI-generated services and the responsibilities that are too properly deceptively decoded. The compensation. It is compensated for with the right compensatory work. In. Ai equalization. If you act on the compensation, you will become responsibilities. It is essentially balanced. The studios leave the door open for Sag-Aftra's Worst Nightmare, so that the studios fully replace actors with Ki-Replicas and do not offer compensation for those on which they rely on their models.

In the meantime, Union negotiators require a similar protection to those that are secured by previous business to ensure that their actors are protected from AI replications without their consent and that the replicated people are properly compensated for their similarity.

While part of the problem for the union is that they lack the public pressure they had for the double strikes 2023, there are other complications because those who are qualified as a video game are also part of the debate. For example, the studios do not want to be considered as an actor, which would make their work susceptible to take over AI, and forced most, if not all movement artists, to lose their work.

“As such, I can crawl all over the ground and the walls and a creature and creature and [the studios] it will argue that this is not a performance and that this is not subject to your AI protection measures. ” explained Andi Norris, an artist who is part of the trade union's negotiation team.

Yuri Lowenthal, Spider-Man's voice, spoke with variety about the situation. “For me, it amounts to three things. Consent is the consent that you will not use the data we have recorded to create a service that we did not have a say through, ”said Lowenthal. “Two, compensation: If you do something like this, we earn a piece of it. Otherwise, actors are no longer paid and everything is over for us. And three: control, to be able to pursue this kind of things and know where to go. “

It is unclear what has to change so that the two sides have to reach an agreement, but the studios are probably exposed to pressure because the actors do not restrict their ability to produce their games. In the meantime, independent studios who sign a contract with SAG-AFTRA, employ union articles and offer them the opportunity to further produce their games that are not affected by the strike.

Movieguide® before reported On video games and KI:

The large video game Studio Lightspeed LA was approved by SAG-ATTRA to continue working on his next publication after agreed to agree to preliminary terms with regard to AI regulations.

“I am very happy to work with Lightspeed La.” said SAG-AFTRA Executive Director and chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. “Your upcoming game can be located in a world of technological amok, but by agreeing to the right conditions, they work to ensure that the real future will not be a dystopian for actors. My gratitude for Steve [Martin]The entire crew of Lightspeed La and the SAG-ATTRA members who work on this project, all of which enabled this cooperation. “

SAG-AFTRA transferred went into the strike Six weeks ago to negotiate cheaper terms when it comes to AI protection. The union had been held in talks with big video game studios since October 2022 and did not have to find any conditions that were pleasant for both sides.

The motion capture actors are particularly afraid of being replaced by the emerging technology, and their job security was an important point in these negotiations. However, Lightspeed LA broke off a rank from other large studios and signed an intermediate contract that is concluded to a contract for the entire industry. The studio supports the efforts of strike and SAG-Aftra to ensure strong AI protection.

“Lightspeed La has always recognized and appreciated the unlossed role of the talent, injecting creativity, innovation and human touch in video games”, and “in video games”, has and always appreciates it and always appreciated. ” said Steve Martin, General Manager of LightSpeed ​​La, supports our line -up, is the right one, and there was never a hesitation to take into account the protection of the actors who anchor this agreement. We would like to thank Duncan Crabtree-Ireland and everyone at SAG-Aftra for their openness and cooperation in order to achieve this agreement. “

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