LOS ANGELES — Hollywood’s actors’ union filed an unfair labor follow cost towards Llama Productions on Monday, alleging the corporate changed actors’ work by utilizing synthetic intelligence to generate Darth Vader’s voice in Fortnite with out discover.
The Display screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Tv and Radio Artists mentioned Llama Productions, a subsidiary of gaming large Epic Video games, “failed and refused to bargain in good faith with the union” within the final six months. The corporate made unilateral adjustments to the phrases and situations of employment “without providing notice to the union or the opportunity to bargain” by utilizing AI-generated voices to exchange bargaining unit work, SAG-AFTRA mentioned.
Epic Video games didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
SAG-AFTRA referred to as a strike towards main sport firms in July after greater than a 12 months of negotiations across the union’s interactive media settlement broke down over considerations round using unregulated synthetic intelligence.
In a press release, SAG-AFTRA mentioned the union helps the rights of members and their estates to regulate using their digital replicas.
“However, we must protect our right to bargain terms and conditions around uses of voice that replace the work of our members, including those who previously did the work of matching Darth Vader’s iconic rhythm and tone in video games,” the union mentioned.
