Voice Actors and SAG-AFTRAMake Key Deal With AI Company [Video]

The topic of AI in gaming is becoming a far more complicated issue than some might have thought a few years ago. To be clear, artificial intelligence is already being used in the gaming space in a way that isn’t detrimental to those that work within it. The phrase “Enemy AI” is an example of that. However, the problem is that many companies wish to use a kind of “Generative AI” to make content without the help of dedicated game designers, workers, and voice actors, who are backed by SAG-AFTRA, thus removing them from the process entirely, and not having to pay them for their work.

We saw one backlash to this on the TV/movie front last year with the writers/actors strike that shut down the industry for many months and caused a lot of backlash when those in power refused to work with them in various regards. SAG-AFTRA then went on …