Just over a month after SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator and executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland called for a strike against video game companies, 80 games have agreed to tiered-budget or interim agreements, which include “common sense A.I. protections.”
“We applaud those video game companies signing our tiered-budget and interim agreement,” read a statement from Crabtree-Ireland. “Not only are they doing the right thing by their workers, they’re also helping to preserve the human art, ingenuity and creativity that fuels interactive storytelling.”
“These agreements signal that the video game companies in the collective bargaining group do not represent the will of the larger video game industry,” Crabtree-Ireland continued. “The many companies that are happy to agree to our A.I. terms prove that these terms are not only reasonable, but feasible…
