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California passes bill to prohibit unauthorized AI replicas of the deceased
4.9.2024
California’s Senate passed Assembly Bill 1836, prohibiting unauthorized AI-generated replicas of deceased personalities without prior consent to protect performers’ rights and likenesses
California passes bill to prohibit unauthorized AI replicas of the deceased
4.9.2024
California’s Senate passed Assembly Bill 1836, prohibiting unauthorized AI-generated replicas of deceased personalities without prior consent to protect performers’ rights and likenesses
Here's What The Video Game Actors Strike Might Mean For Fortnite And Other Games
1.8.2024
Thousands of video game actors went on strike on July 26 for the first time since 2017. The fight is over AI protections and other issues in contract negotiations with some of the biggest studios and publishers, and will halt work from SAG-AFTRA members on future projects, as well as possibly keep...
Grand Theft Auto 6 Is Exempt From The Game Actors Strike
26.7.2024
SAG-AFTRA game actors are currently on strike against some of the biggest companies in the industry over AI, but that won’t impact the most anticipated games of 2025: Grand Theft Auto VI. It’s one of several in-development projects that is exempt from the labor action. Read more
Hollywood video game performers go on strike, citing AI ‘abuse’
26.7.2024
The American labor union has been trying for 18 months to get a clause preventing publishers from making AI-generated versions of their actors’ work without their consent
Video Game Actors Go On Strike For AI Protections
25.7.2024
Video game actors are on strike for the first time since 2017 after months of negotiations with Activision, Epic Games, and other big publishers and studios over higher pay, better safety measures, and protections from new generative AI technologies. They’ll be hitting the picket line a year after...
Why Video Game Voice Actors Don’t Love The New SAG-AFTRA Deal
10.1.2024
After months of speculation from voice actors concerned with how their voices could be co-opted by AI, and recent announcements from companies like Ubisoft and Tencent that they’ll use NVIDIA’s new AI tools to provide voices for NPCs, the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television...
SAG-AFTRA strike ends as AI deal reached, Hollywood still torn
13.11.2023
The 118-day Hollywood actors’ union strike came to an end with an agreement on AI usage, though not everyone in the industry sees it as the right move
US senators draft NO FAKES bill to ban unauthorized AI copycats
13.10.2023
The proposed act came just hours after talks broke down between actors and Hollywood studios, with AI replicas a major friction point in negotiations
Video Game Voice Actors Are Ready To Strike Over AI. Here’s Why
26.9.2023
Sarah Elmaleh didn’t expect to find herself on the frontlines of a medium-defining fight over the use of AI in game development when she entered the video game industry over a decade ago. The voice of Katie in 2012’s seminal indie hit Gone Home, Elmaleh arrived in California just in time for...
AI proposal sparks conflict in Hollywood as SAG-AFTRA goes on strike
14.7.2023
The AI proposal suggested that background performers should undergo scanning, receive payment for a single day and grant their companies complete ownership over the scan, image and likeness
Mob Psycho 100’s English Voice Actor Probably Isn't Coming Back Because Of Crunchyroll
20.9.2022
October is slated to be a stacked month in the realm of anime with the return of the popular shonen series Bleach, and the debut of the hotly anticipated devil-killing anime Chainsaw Man. However, it’s not looking like the English voice actor for everyone’s favorite milk-drinking psychic will...
Creators On Twitch, Instagram, And TikTok Will Soon Gain Benefits From A Major Hollywood Union
11.2.2021
Twitch streamers, Instagram influencers, and TikTokers just got a potentially very powerful ally: The Screen Actors Guild—American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, aka SAG-AFTRA, one of the most powerful unions in Hollywood. Soon, influencers who create branded content will be able...