Ashly Burch is a video game actor known for her performances as Tiny Tina in the Borderlands Series and Chloe in adventure game Life is Strange.
Speaking to BBC Newsbeat after the strike was suspended so members could vote, Ashly said performers didn’t want a total ban on AI in game development.
“We just don’t want to be replaced by it,” she said.
She said AI was “arguably a bigger threat to voice and movement performers” than actors in film and TV, and the strike’s main goal was guarantees around “consent, transparency, and compensation”.
“Basically you have to get our consent to make a digital replica of us,” she said.
“You have to tell us how you’re going to use it, and then you have to compensate us fairly.”
One of Ashly’s best-known characters – Aloy from Sony’s Horizon series – became a talking point during the strike when an AI-powered prototype of the character leaked.
She said the response from fans to the model – which showed the character responding to prompts from a player – was reassuring.
“To a person, everyone was like, ‘I don’t want AI performances in my games,,” she added.
Ashly has also worked on live-action projects such as Apple TV show Mythic Quest and her recent web series I’m Happy You’re Here, focused on mental health.
She said both reminded her of what human beings can bring to a role.
“And that, to me, as a person that loves games and loves art, is the big risk of AI, that we’re going to lose out on really interesting, evocative performances.”