The late actor's estate gave Epic permission to use his voice, and the studio trained the character on archived clips using ElevenLabs, a text-to-speech AI voice provider, and Google's Gemini 2.0 ...

Hollywood’s actors’ union filed an unfair labor practice charge against Llama Productions on Monday, alleging the company replaced actors’ work by using artificial intelligence to generate ...

The complaint, which can be viewed here, alleges that over the last six months, Llama Productions (owned by Epic Games) has failed to bargain in good faith with SAG-AFTRA's video game actors and ...

Players can now interact with an A.I. character that uses the voice of the late James Earl Jones. But SAG-AFTRA isn't happy ...

Per a joint statement issued by the actors union and the video game companies party to the agreement Wednesday, SAG-AFTRA members approved the 2025 SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement by a vote ...

Epic Games is facing union action from SAG-AFTRA due to Fortnite's recent introduction of an AI-powered Darth Vader, which delivers voice lines based on archived recordings of James Earl Jones.

Fortnite's AI Darth Vader Voice Draws Union Complaint The actors guild filed an unfair-labor-practice complaint against Epic Games for Fortnite's use of Darth Vader's AI voice.

Hollywood video game voice and motion capture actors signed a new contract with video game studios on Wednesday with a focus on artificial intelligence protections, the actors' union, SAG-AFTRA ...

The video game companies negotiating a new contract with SAG-AFTRA have issued a “best, last and final” offer to the actors union, which removes some key sticking points regarding Generative AI.

The video game actors' strike was suspended Wednesday after a tentative deal with game publishers was announced, bringing an end to the union’s nearly yearlong walkout. The previous Interactive ...

Per a joint statement issued by the actors union and the video game companies party to the agreement Wednesday, SAG-AFTRA members approved the 2025 SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Agreement by a vote ...