The union has now filed an unfair labor practice charge (link to the PDF is on the SAG-AFTRA website) that calls out “ Fortnite ‘s signatory company, Llama Productions” for “ [replacing] the work of human performers with AI technology” without “providing any notice of their intent to do this and without bargaining with us over appropriate terms.”

The actors' union says Llama Productions failed to notify them of their intent to use digital recreations of James Earl Jones' voice

SAG-AFTRA, the massive actors and media union with over 160,000 members, has filed an unfair labor practice charge with the National Labor Relations Board against Epic Games over its inclusion of an AI-powered Darth Vader in a recent Fortnite update.