Posted on 04/01/2025 6:31:28 AM PDT by Salman
The SAG-AFTRA strike against major video game companies has nearly reached the 250-day mark and there’s no deal yet. And while nothing seems to have changed from the outside, real progress is being made behind the scenes.
The video game companies’ bargaining committee (which represents Activision Productions, Blindlight, Disney Character Voices, Electronic Arts Productions, Formosa Interactive, Insomniac Games, Llama Productions, Take 2 Productions and WB Games) presented an updated counter proposal of the Interactive Media Agreement to the actors union on March 26, which “directly addresses several issues the union has identified as important components of a deal,” a source close to negotiations told Variety.
The SAG-AFTRA negotiating committee, which has consistently expressed that protections against generative AI for performers is their top priority, is currently reviewing the new proposal.
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Meanwhile the bosses will be ruined by massive pirating. I am not advocating anything, just predicting.
{ snicker }
AI will soon replace these actors... Too bad, so sad... But that’s the way it’s going to go. Now they will need to return to the jobs that they were truly meant for... Flipping burgers on a grill and serving swill.
As will most of us...
There’s been a Video Game Actors Strike for 2/3 of a year? Well, I’ll be!
AI is never going to fix your toilet... One word... Plumbing! Get your red seal and you’ll be set for life.
If I had to go back to 18 and start over with one piece of wisdom - go trades, no college.
Is this serious? or a parody from the Babylon Bee...?
First I’ve heard about it. I hope those voice over actors are not holding their breaths until victory. Fair or not, the industry seems to be changing the way it operates.
Good one. Leisure Suit Larry lives.
I have a STEM degree and I compete every day with offshore visa holders who drive down my wage and ability to sometimes work efficiently and requires unnecessary extra work because I don’t understand heavy accents and spend half my time fixing shitty written code and design. Makes for a long day and after a while (years) you are too invested and discouraged to look for something else since they are all basically the same.
You could try other engineering fields - chemical, mechanical, manufacturing, civil, structural, power, ceramics, composites, metallurgical, aeronautical, electrical, bioinformatics, . Software work especially suffers from what you describe. Many engineering disciplines are not as adversely affected.
Continuous improvement is the key.
A strike so impressive I wasn’t aware it was happening.
Now that’s a strike!
I’m old school so never heard of a strike. Can’t they have AI speak? Maybe not since all the mispronunciations would be distractions.
You are correct, sir.
I didn’t even know that (1) there was a group of video game actors and (2) that they have been on strike for eight months...
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