SAG-AFTRA has filed a labor complaint against Epic Games for using AI to recreate Darth Vader’s voice in Fortnite. Read full ...

The U.S. actors' union has filed a complaint against Epic’s Llama Productions, alleging it used AI to replace voice actors ...

Heidi Kettenring (playing Ida Strauss), Mark David Kaplan (playing Isador Strauss), James Earl Jones, II (Playing Edgar ...

The union claims that Llama Productions failed to notify the labor group and negotiate when it began employing a James Earl ...

The union has now filed an unfair labor practice charge (link to the PDF is on the SAG-AFTRA website) that calls out “ ...

AFTRA‘s power, it would appear after the online gaming platform used conversational AI to replicate James Earl Jones‘ voice ...

Fortnite now lets you talk to Darth Vader and thanks to AI and some uncanny tech wizardry, Epic Games has brought back James ...

SAG-AFTRA, the massive actors and media union with over 160,000 members, has filed an unfair labor practice charge with the ...

An actors' union is suing the makers of the Fortnite video game over the use of AI to create an interactive Darth Vader, it ...

SAG-AFTRA has filed a ULP against Epic Games for using a version of Darth Vader in Fortnite with an AI-generated voice.

Their claim centers on labor practices, not permissions. While they support the rights of estates like Jones’s, SAG-AFTRA argues that using AI to replace human performers without union involvement ...

Fortnite announced that it had used artificial intelligence to recreate James Earl Jones’ voice and let players have ...