The people who work in the entertainment industry hate AI since a single prompt would produce something that is better than what they have giving consumers in the last 10 years. A single complex prompt would have something better with the added bonus of not having gay shit that people want to put into these projects.

After AI threatens to replace writers that have wrote nothing but shit. AI is now going to replace voice acting too. Seeing another way they could leech and destroy games from within being taken away they are going on strike to prevent them being paid to recite scripts for a living being replaced by a text to speech bot.

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SAG-AFTRA members who perform in video games are striking starting on Friday, the group announced on Thursday, July 25, citing over a year and half of contract negotiations that failed to reach a deal. Workers representing companies including Electronic Arts, Disney, Take-Two, and more are demanding better compensation and informed consent for artificial intelligence’s use of their likenesses.

The strike involves actors who work in video games, either through voice acting, motion-capture, or both. According to the union, negotiations began on October 2022. More than a year later, members voted to strike after employers did not agree to “protect all performers covered by this contract in their A.I. language,” according to a SAG-AFTRA press release. The strike bears parallels to the one in the entertainment industry that ended last November.

“The video game industry generates billions of dollars in profit annually. The driving force behind that success is the creative people who design and create those games,” said chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland. “Frankly, it’s stunning that these video game studios haven’t learned anything from the lessons of last year — that our members can and will stand up and demand fair and equitable treatment with respect to AI, and the public supports us in that.”

I like how they are claiming big studios are exploiting them when their entire work experience is showing up and repeating lines on a piece of paper for a couple of months. These voice actors can be replaced by anybody else that is doing freelance voice acting and no one would tell the difference unless the voice cast has celebrities in it.

One of the games that is being affected by the strike is GTA VI since the voice cast wants to delay the game even further by not showing up to work in the fear that they will be surpassed by a machine in their field.

Video game actors are often a tantalizing reason for gamers to invest their valuable hours. Just in the past few years alone, games like Cyberpunk 2077 and The Last of Us have harnessed the power of celebrity, including the likenesses of stars like Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba, and more. As more companies adopt generative AI in their toolboxes, actors have expressed doubts about how their likenesses will be used without their consent. If the gaming strike resembles last year’s entertainment debacle, it could tie up already lengthy production and development times. That could lead to further delays to everyone’s most anticipated games, such as Take-Two’s Grand Theft Auto 6, slated for next year, which analysts have already deemed could be 2025’s biggest hit. Take-Two declined to comment.

The video game companies negotiating the deal with SAG-AFTRA responded in statement that they were disappointed the union has chosen to strike “when we are so close to a deal.” Audrey Cooling, a spokesperson for the companies, noted by email that the parties had already found common ground on 24 out of 25 proposals, including wage increases. Cooling stated that their offer already “extends meaningful A.I. protections that include requiring consent and fair compensation to all performers” under the contract, and called the deal terms “among the strongest in the entertainment industry.” Games that began production before late last year will not be impacted by the strike, according to the terms.

Why would the studios even care to grand the wishes of these entitled losers? If they are so scared about the idea of CHAT-GPT or some other AI program being better than them then they should prove that humans are better than AI. Problem is that they know they can’t prove that their pay rate on studios to give a average performance won’t ever compete with an AI chatbot so now they will go out and strike to keep the grift going.

Let these writers and voice actors fail, they haven’t been a benefit to anything in entertainment and with AI no one is going to miss them.