Ad Blocker – Infection Podcast Episode 487

YouTube ads, Bungie layoffs and more on this week’s episode of Infection Podcast

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• Random

• • YouTube’s server-side ads resulted in a black screen for ad blocker users

• AI

• • AI concerns spur video game workers to go on strike starting Friday | Fox News
  • Video Game Actors Are Going On Strike Over AI
  • AI Image Generator Avoids Copyright Issues by Training on Corrupted Photos | PetaPixel

• Microsoft

• • 200+ workers at Bethesda Game Studio have unionized | Eurogamer.net
  • 500+ World of Warcraft developers unionize | GamesIndustry.biz
  • ZeniMax staff now included in Microsoft and CWA’s labor neutrality agreement | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Unionisation leaps forward: now it’s time to deliver | Opinion | GamesIndustry.biz
  • SAG-AFTRA calls for a “video game strike”, effective from tomorrow | GamesIndustry.biz
  • Games in development prior to September 2023 exempt from SAG-AFTRA strike | GamesIndustry.biz
  • CWA union says it “stands in “complete solidarity with striking members of SAG-AFTRA” | GamesIndustry.biz

• Bungie

• • Bungie is laying off 220 employees
  • Bungie Devs React To More Mass Layoffs: ‘My Whole Team Is Gone’
  • Games Industry Criticizes Bungie Management, CEO Pete Parsons in Wake of Layoffs: ‘Inexcusable’