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Video Game Union Performers Call for AI Protections at Disney Picket: “This Is Not Something We Can Wait For”

Performers from 'Spider-Man' and 'The Last of Us' demonstrated in Burbank on Thursday as their negotiators remained in a deadlock with companies like Disney, Activision Blizzard and Electronic Arts.

It was a scene that produced a sense of déjà vu: a line of performers carrying SAG-AFTRA signs and walking in circles under the blazing Burbank summer sun. According to SAG-AFTRA’s negotiators, video game companies only would agree to partial but “dangerously incomplete” AI proposals in the parties’ last formal bargaining session, which would have left stunt and movement performers particularly vulnerable if they had been enacted. SAG-AFTRA disagreed, and though union negotiators have engaged in some “informal conversations” with the companies since the strike began July 26, no real progress has been made to ease the impasse yet.

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