After James Earl Jones’s use of AI to resume sound for the Dartwder, the Seag-AFTRA has filed an unfair charge of labor practice against the Fortnite maker Epic.
Prior to his death, actor Jones – who, along with Dartwader, gave Disney’s Sher King to his social styling as soon as he gave. Permission to produce a copy of its sound using AIAnd technology was used to produce Vader’s sound in Disney+ Show Obi Van Kinobi. Jones’s AI -powered sound star War Seth Lord died once again last week, this time in Fortnite, where players could talk to Dartwader through Epic’s online game.
The AI-generation voice used in Fortynite reached with the permission of Jones’ family, who said he hoped that with the help of epic “Dartwaders and long-time fans of new generations would be allowed to share in the enjoyment of this famous role.” However, players soon began to use technology to get a dart, resulting in epic rapidly releasing hot fixes to prevent it from happening.
Now, the Union of US Actors SAG -AFTRA – which represents 160,000 US media professionals, including voice over artists, have filed an unfair labor practice charge with NLRB against Lama Production, which is fully -owned by epic sports. The union said that the company “chose to change the work of human actors with AI technology … provided a notice without any work and without bargaining with us on the right terms”.
A The statement was shared last night“Sig-Fatra said,” (celebrates our members and their properties to overcome the use of their digital copies “, and that” welcomes the use of new technologies to allow new generations to divide these ligae and well-known characters. “
However, the organization believes it still “should preserve the right to bargaining the terms and conditions around the sound that changes the work of our members”. It notes that it also includes actors who have also worked to create a copy of “Dartwder’s famous rhythm and video games”.
In its filing – Which you can read here -The SAG-AFTRA said that through Epic Production, Lama Production “failed and refused to bargain with the union,” and it “without providing notice to the union or without the opportunity to bargain, without providing unilateral works, without providing unilateral works, for unilateral works.”
Uruguay has reached the EPIC to comment on the SAG-AFTRA filing.
SAG-AFTRA actors have been on strike since July, as Union interacts with various video game companies on the interactive media contract. AI has been the biggest stacking point for strikes.
Earlier this year, a large -scale impact Vice -Chancer Jennifer Hale spoke to Urugamar as to why the strike was underway.
“This is a big problem for all of us and the violation is very wide,” he said. “So to me, it is understood that everyone needs to take their time. As an actor – and we saw this in the authors’ strike and theater contract strike – we are just a canal in the coal mine.”
