Video game actors to resume picket line in L.A. [Video]

Striking SAG-AFTRA video game performers plan to picket outside Disney Character Voices Thursday — the union’s second picketing event since it walked off the job on July 23 to highlight a dispute its says focuses on an unwillingness by top gaming companies to protect voice actors from the emergence of artificial intelligence.

The pickets are scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon.

Roughly 2,600 SAG-AFTRA members who work on video games went on strike following a breakdown in contract talks, with AI again emerging as the main sticking point.

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Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, national executive director and chief negotiator for SAG-AFTRA, called the strike July 22 on behalf of video game actors covered by the Interactive Media Agreement. The strike took effect at 12:01 a.m. July 23.

Video game actors last went on strike in October 2016, before AI became a major issue.

“We’re not going to consent to …