The SAG-AFTRA union says "progress has been made" in negotiations over the videogame voice and motion capture actors strike that was called in July 2024, but warned that the most recent proposal submitted by the bargaining group is "filled with alarming loopholes that will leave our members vulnerable to AI abuse."
The strike, which officially began on July 26, 2024, calls for "fair compensation and the right of informed consent for the AI use of [actors'] faces, voices, and bodies," SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said at the time. The game makers negotiating with the union said they've offered "meaningful AI protections that include requiring consent and fair compensation," but the union feels otherwise, claiming game companies involved in the negotiations "refuse to plainly affirm, in clear and enforceable language, that they will protect all performers covered by this contract in their AI language."
