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Video game actors' union calls for strike against 'League of Legends'

Sep. 25, 2024 11:01 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — “League of Legends” is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services for the blockbuster online multiplayer game. The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio...

California governor signs laws to protect actors against unauthorized use of AI

Sep. 17, 2024 14:41 PM EDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed off Tuesday on legislation aiming at protecting Hollywood actors and performers against unauthorized artificial intelligence that could be used to create digital clones of themselves without their consent. The new laws...

James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader voice lives on through AI. Voice actors see promise and peril in that

Sep. 11, 2024 01:06 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Over the course of an acting career that spanned more than six decades, James Earl Jones' voice became an indelible piece of his work as a performer. On screen, Jones, who died Monday at 93, brought to life a reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in...

Can AI truly replicate the screams of a man on fire? Video game performers want their work protected

Aug. 18, 2024 11:36 AM EDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For hours, motion capture sensors tacked onto Noshir Dalal’s body tracked his movements as he unleashed aerial strikes, overhead blows and single-handed attacks that would later show up in a video game. He eventually swung the sledgehammer gripped in his hand so many times...