Voice actors were on strike for nearly a year after reaching an impasse with ten major video game companies in negotiations over their use of AI. The hard-won contract requires companies to request the permission of performers to create AI renditions of their persons and voices and to pay them for the labor of their AI doppelgängers at a rate commensurate with that of in-person work.

• Employer: Activision Productions, Blindlight, Disney Character Voices, Electronic Arts Productions, Epic Games, Formosa Interactive, Insomniac Games, Llama Productions, Take-Two Interactive, VoiceWorks Productions, Warner Bros. Games

• Organizer: SAG-AFTRA

• Action length: 11 months

• Number of workers: 2,500

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