Video game-afra actor strike against Aiannenberg Media

Around 30 SAG-ATTRA video game language actors and actors gave up this morning in front of Warner Brothers 'headquarters in Burank, California, in the middle of a ongoing workers' strike that started last July.

Your goal is to re -negotiate your contracts in order to take into account artificial intelligence protection. Video play artists said they will continue to strike until a new contract is signed.

“This fight is much larger than performers. This is overall. How do we want this industry to be a booming industry. How do we want it to progress? “Said Andi Norris, a video game -Stunt -actor who specializes in creatures. “Do you want the human elements in there? Because if we, when we switch to AI, they lose it. ”

According to Norris, one of the possibilities of how video games are affected by generative AI when used to replicate movement patterns.

Norris said there are a few days when you spend strict movements for up to 8 hours on all four. With current AI protocols in the video game industry, game companies can then replicate these movements via AI without compensating the artist. Norris said they agree with the strike to ensure that this can no longer be the case.

“I would like to be compensated for my work, which is still supplied with electricity. So it's not as if I was paid for a working day,” said Norris. “It is as if I paid at any time when my work is switched on in your game and I get something because you have taken away my work.”

These AI replication strategies can also be used in the voice output. Marin M. Miller, a video game speaker, said you also want to have more control over the content for which your voice is used.

“If our body, our voices, our similarity, are used to hate speeches or puspeting sexual things, we would like to get our consent and we would have to chore these things in advance,” said Miller. “But our employers don't agree, so we hold back our work.”

In October, some companies signed interim agreements to offer the actors temporary protective measures while continuing with production at new games. Over 120 games of 49 companies signed these contracts this month.

According to polygon, a gaming and entertainment news, the contract proposed by representatives of the video game speakers also includes a wage increase of over 15% and more health and security protection.

Miller said generative AI strongly influenced her ability to make a living.

“I now have to compete with below -average robots and my employers expect me to train them for free,” said Miller. “Basically, you argue that everything I speak during a session until the end of time you have.”

However, other companies organize games with silent characters such as the youngest hero -update from Destiny 2.

Last week when Warner Brothers announced that they were closing three game companies and setting production in the Wonder Woman Game series, she only added more fuel for strikers who switch to the line of strike.

Mark Musashi, a video player and occasional stunt coordinator and language actor, said before the strike, studio switching and game cancellations put the industry in a difficult position. Regardless of the financial challenges, people are still noticeable.

“If we only give in now, I now mean that things will be great now, but then, so many years, they will not rent, their mortgage, whatever,” said Musashi. “There is no short -term drought that you have to get through. That will be the end. ”

Your hope, he said, be it to set a precedent for the future.