Voice actors breathe life into modern video games.

They're heroes and villains like in Final Fantasy 16.

You will pay for what you've done.

For criminals and Grand Theft Auto.

We're going to move quick and we're going to keep cool.

My job!

My score!

There's zombies like in tailtails the Walking Dead. They're all too human like in Red Dead Redemption too.

I'm afraid.

There is nothing to be afraid of Mr. Morgan. Take a gamble that love exists and do a loving act.

And voice actors, like in The Last of Us too, make combat scenes so lifelike you might win at how painful it sounds.

Plus, motion capture performers do the stunts and fights which make all of these fantasy worlds look real.

The video game industry made close to $185 billion last year,

and some of the biggest game studios rely on voice and motion

capture actors which is why they're also worried about generative AI.

I have found my voice in voice banks where people can take my voice and make it say things

I've never said. So that's already out there.

Veronica Taylor is one of the many video game actors who are worried that the companies they work for could replace them with artificial intelligence or use their voices and motions in a way they haven't consented to.

That is a big part of why many video game actors

are currently on strike. Here's motion capture actor Andy Norris who's on the

Union's negotiating committee. What they are saying is that some of these performances specifically for movement is just data. I can

crawl all over the floor and the walls as such and such creature and they will argue that that is not performance and so that is not

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