BURBANK, California- Striking video game voice actors and motion-capture performers held their first picket on Thursday (Aug 1) in front of Warner Bros. Games and said artificial intelligence was a threat to their professions.

"The models that they're using have been trained on our voices without our consent at all, with no compensation," Persona 5 Tactica voice actor and video game strike captain, Leeanna Albanese, told Reuters on the picket line.

Video game voice actors and motion-capture performers called a strike last week over failed labour contract negotiations focused on AI-related protections for workers.

This marks the latest strike in Hollywood, after union writers and actors marched on the picket lines last year with AI also being a major concern.

"I think when you remove the human element from any interactive project, whether it be a video game or TV show, an animated series, a movie, and you put AI in replacement for the human element, we can tell! I'm a gamer, I'm a digester of this content," British Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare & Warzone actor Jeff Leach said.

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