AI company Replica Studios and US actors’ union Sag-Aftra have both struck it. “Fully informed consent and fair compensation” are what the union claims to provide for its members. However, a lot of voice actors, who have long been worried that AI may take their jobs, have responded angrily; one called the agreement “garbage.” It follows a months-long walkout staged by Sag-Aftra in 2023 to demand protections from AI-powered movie and television companies. Voice actor Sunil Malhotra of Mortal Kombat and Fallout has stated that he “sacrificed to strike half of last year to keep my profession alive, not shop around my AI replica,” among other voice actors who have claimed that this new contract is at odds with the goal of that industrial action. In a blog post about the news,