Videogame actors are on strike: The approximately 160,000-member SAG-AFTRA union says that major game makers have refused to include sufficient protections against generative AI in their contracts. The game makers disagree, and for now, the parties are at an impasse.
The strike means that union actors will not work on new games in production at a number of major studios until they can agree on a new contract. Take-Two Interactive, parent company of Rockstar, is one of the game makers being struck, but Grand Theft Auto 6—by far the most anticipated upcoming game, and one we expect to contain gigs worth of dialogue—may not be slowed down as a result.
