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A member of U.S. Congress has now called out Activision Blizzard’s use of generative AI in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, and demanded tighter regulation to “prevent companies from using AI to eliminate jobs.”
It’s not been the smoothest start for Activision’s blockbuster shooter franchise. When Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 launched last week, players promptly took to social media to complain about AI-generated images they had found across the game, primarily focusing on calling card images with a Studio Ghibli-esque styling, following a trend of AI-Ghibli images from earlier this year.
Now, in a post on X/Twitter, Californian congressman has Ro Khanna slammed the developer’s move to AI to “extract greater profits,” writing: “We need regulations that prevent companies from using AI to eliminate jobs to extract greater profits. Artists at these companies need to have a say in how AI is deployed. They should share in the profits. And there should be a tax on mass displacement.”
In a follow-up tweet, Khanna added that there should be tax reforms to discourage excessive automation, guardrails should be put in place to protect worker input before deployment — “not a Luddite complete ban” — adding “support unions
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