The union that represents U.S. actors, journalists and other artists has filed an Unfair Labor Practices complaint against the production company for the popular interactive video game, Fortnite. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), filed the complaint against Llama Productions, which is wholly owned by Epic Games, Inc., charging that the game’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) to recreate the voice of deceased actor James Earl Jones as Darth Vader violated Section 8(a), subsections (1) and (5) of the National Labor Relations Act.
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