Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns

Channel 3000 News/AP ^ | July 26, 2024 | AP Staff

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Amid the tense interactive negotiations, SAG-AFTRA created a separate contract in February that covered independent and lower-budget video game projects. The tiered-budget independent interactive media agreement contains some of the protections on AI that video game industry titans have rejected.

[No name given]

Another strike 🪧, eh? Oh, well.

[glorgau]

Wow, clueless. The factory is going to be automated and these line workers won’t be going back to the production line.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Hands off my Pokemon, AI! ;)

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[Clutch Martin]

I can see where game developers would go on strike, but an actor? Gaming Developers for video games or computer games are on the way out and AI will definitely take their jobs away.

All the up-and-coming young folks that think they’re going to make lots of money developing games... need to start looking at other options.

[Dr. Sivana]

Gaming Developers for video games or computer games are on the way out and AI will definitely take their jobs away.

Maybe some of the grunts, not the real talent. AI in programming video games has to be guided and checked. Maybe not as much as in Enterprise DB development, but it can go sideways unexpectedly. Also, it will have the tendency to make everything look and play similarly, which has already been a problem as people have been using canned routines for decades.

I think for the most part, it will change, but not eliminate most jobs in development.

[Tell It Right]

Gaming Developers for video games or computer games are on the way out and AI will definitely take their jobs away.

Perhaps you're right, but I'm hesitant to join you in saying AI will destroy software development. Ever since I became a hobby programmer at 14 I've heard that this or that new IDE or code-assist feature would make coding so easy that programmers would lose work. Countless times in my career it's been just around the corner that managers would be able to make code without having to hire a programmer. But the demand for software kept increasing more than the dev tools made programming easier.

So far, the main forces against programmer jobs are 1) stock bubbles built on tech mania running out of air, and 2) H1b visas.

[Vermont Lt]

I have a friend who put his kid through college doing voice work for video games. Video game acting can pay as much as a major motion picture. Consider that a top video game can pull in $1B on its first day. It takes a long time for movies to hit that level.

Gaming isn’t something I ever enjoyed that much. But its a HUGE worldwide business.

[usurper]

The factory is going to be automated and these line workers won’t be going back to the production line.

They can learn to code.....wait, what?

These changes are completely inevitable, striking will only accelerate the process.

[LS]

I totally get their concerns and am with them.

The problem is that this will only accelerate their replacement by AI. ANYONE with a public presence-—face, voice, whatever-—is going to become a victim of this stuff unless very well-designed laws are put in place now to protect personal capital.

[Brian Griffin]

In a diverse nation and globalized economy, individual appearance will eventually not be a decisive factor.

If I lived in the Bronx, the protagonist might be a handsome black guy.

Attractive college students might get paid $100 each for providing their image and voice for AI use.

[Theoria]

Games and movie companies are ill prepared for the rise of hobbyist and small companies that will put out movies and games out of their garages.

Every single second, development gets better and faster. Entire ecosystems of products and cinema will be produced at home.

The NeoLuddite blow back is just starting, the wave of AI/System production will wash away humans in many areas.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

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[PLMerite]

Revolt of the NPCs ?

[Beowulf9]

Motion capture performer Jade Blue Afterglow (X-files) goin' on strike.

[LittleBillyInfidel]

It’s getting scary out there, Theoria. I just cloned my own voice to AI for my YouTube videos. It’s perfectly identical. I can now see how politicians, CEOs, and celebrities can be set up or blackmailed.

[Varsity Flight]

” ANYONE with a public presence-—face, voice, whatever-—is going to become a victim of this stuff unless very well-designed laws are put in place now to protect personal capital.”

📌Revelation 📖 The “mark” coming, worldwide.

[oldtech]

Isn’t this something? With all the chaos & confusion that abounds in the world today, we now are supposed to worry about problems within the video game industry.

[alternatives?]

I remember when Halo 3 came out. First day sales were greater than NY Yankee ticket sales for the season.

[alternatives?]

With Woke and politically correct programing, people are starting to be more interested in board games. Maybe Panzer Blitz will make a comeback.