Video game voice actors and motion-capture performers represented by the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) plan to walk off the job on Friday, saying they and video game producers remain far apart on the regulation of generative AI. (The Logic)
Talking point: It marks the second SAG-AFTRA strike over the use of the technology. Producers say they have offered AI protections to workers, though the union maintains that some could be excluded. Meanwhile, more than 500 workers for California-based Blizzard Entertainment’s World of Warcraft franchise voted to form a union, following a successful unionization effort in 2022 by quality-assurance testers at the Microsoft-owned video game producer.