Striking Video-Game Actors Picket at Warner Bros. Studios

BURBANK, Calif.—Striking video game performers staged their first picketing action on Aug.1, marching outside Warner Bros. Studios to highlight a dispute they say focuses on an unwillingness from top gaming companies to protect voice actors during the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI). The picket marked the first time striking members of the union demonstrated publicly since game voice actors and performance workers voted to strike last month. Roughly 2,600 members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) union who work on video games went on strike following a breakdown in contract talks, with artificial intelligence again emerging as the main sticking point....