AI concerns stall contract negotiations between game companies and actors
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🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Big-budget video game producers and the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the union representing voice-over actors and motion-capture stunt workers, have been negotiating a new labor contract since last September. And union leaders say those talks have stalled due to concerns over generative artificial intelligence. (Note: Several Marketplace employees are also represented by SAG-AFTRA under a different contract.) Marketplace’s Lily Jamali spoke with Associated Press reporter Sarah Parvini, who recently wrote about the negotiations. She explained how consent is a key concern.
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| 0:36.0 | Game makers and actors ongoing dispute over AI. From American public media this is |
| 0:41.6 | marketplace tech. I'm Lily Dramale. From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 0:42.7 | I'm Lily Jamale. |
| 0:43.8 | Big budget video game producers and SAGAFRA, the Union representing |
| 0:57.6 | voiceover actors and motion capture stunt workers, have been negotiating a |
| 1:02.3 | new labor contract since last September. |
| 1:05.0 | Union leaders say those talks have stalled due to concerns over generative artificial intelligence. |
| 1:11.0 | A note that several marketplace employees are also represented by SAGAftra under a different contract. |
| 1:17.0 | Associated Press reporter Sarah Parvini recently wrote about negotiations with game developers. |
| 1:22.0 | She explained how consent is a key concern. |
| 1:26.0 | What voice actors as well as, you know, motion capture artists and stunt performers who fall |
| 1:32.3 | under this interactive contract are worried |
| 1:34.7 | about is this idea that without consent a previous performance can be used to feed generative AI for example and your voice or your |
| 1:48.9 | likeness can be then replicated without you knowing about it. |
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