How Video Games became a new battlefield for actors and protect artificial intelligence
Wednesday, members Among the actors, the American TV Federation and SAG-AFTRA, they approved a new contract for video game musicians that officially ended a almost-year strike. The majority, 95 percent of the members, voted for the contract to increase annual increase for three years, increase compensation and guards designed to prevent playing companies from performing artificial intelligence.
Actors in the video game industry for 11 months as part of the fight to support artificial intelligence had been an important point that had maintained the negotiations for most of the time. “Any other issue in the contract, including compensation and work conditions, has been resolved months ago,” says the National Executive Director of SAG-AFTRA and the main negotiator, Duncan Krabari-Ireland. The strike was temporarily suspended in June and was waiting for the contract to be approved.
According to Sarah al-Maleh, the actor who also serves as a chair of the SAG-AFTRA Committee, the actors of the game industry have been sleeping for years-even before tools such as ChatGpt. “We knew this was more important,” says al -Mullah. “This is an intermediary that is essentially digital.”
The work of executors is very important to create a game. The audio characters of the actors make these characters more natural by recording the movements and even allow companies to use their similarities. And although artificial intelligence affects industries across the board, including animation, technology, education and more, the video game industry feels acutely feeling these effects.
As part of the contract, the consent and information disclosure agreements are now needed for any video game maker to use the sound or similarity of a presenter to create a digital AI replica. If the executors strike, they will be allowed to suspend their approval for companies to produce any new artificial intelligence material.
Artificial intelligence is now starting to replace meat and blood actors, even in specific cases. In May, Blades The AI version of Darth Vader Star Wars introduced. (The players were catastrophic in only a few hours. Blades Maker Epic Games then pushed a Hatfix soon.) A few days later, Sag-Aftra presented an unjust work charges to the National Labor Relations Board against the Llama Production Subsidiaries. In a statement posted to the SAG-AFTRA website, the organization said that replacing an artificial human worker “without providing any announcement of his intention to do this and without bargaining was done with us on the right conditions.”
Darth Vader actress James Earl Jones allowed her digital voice to recreate her digital sound with artificial intelligence before her death. Crabtree-order does not comment on specific executives or contracts. However, he says that support should be used continuously and with a “reasonable and reasonable” description of how to use their image or voice. “These rules assure that the image, sound and performance of a deceased artist is treated with the same respect for a living artist,” says Crabtree-Yound.
