Video game performers will go on strike over artificial intelligence concerns
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This is probably a hot take, but I would appreciate the variety that AI voice acting could potentially bring to the industry. So many games reuse the same voice actors, so AI shaking that up and giving us a wider variety of voices would be great. If I had $1 for every time a game's voice acting cast included Troy Baker, Nolan North, Yuri Lowenthal, and/or Matthew Mercer, and probably others that I'm not even remembering, I'd have enough money to make my own AAA game.
Not to mention you can make up some iconic sounding voices that are quite rare right now
You know what else stole people's work? Automated assembly lines and agriculture that resulted in excess production and pretty much erased hunger in all 1st world countries and most of the 3rd world ones.
We’re not in the 19th century here. We’re overfed, not hungry.
“Without guardrails, game companies could train AI to replicate an actor’s voice, or create a digital replica of their likeness without consent or fair compensation, the union said.”
Now, imagine some douchebag CEO at EA replicating your voice and using it without adequately compensating you for it.
This isn’t about how great or revolutionary AI is. It’s about the insatiable greed of the new 21st-century wealth class. Born into a bubble so detached from the reality the rest of the 99.9% live in.
These people will use AI to make people hungry again, as long as they can get a penny out of it.
Us being overfed is probably a cultural transition problem. Most of our great-grannies and great-grandpas lived in a scarce food world, meaning they'd eat whatever they could whenever it was available, and they taught that to their offspring.
But being overfed is still better than underfed in the big picture, because humanity can instead focus on increasing productivity and advancing technology, which we certainly have done.
As for AI, I agree that it sucks but it's not something you can stop with government regulation.
Otherwise you'll just have developers from unscrupulous governments using AI at will, therefore paying a fraction of what western devs do and making the latter less competitive.
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We already have a preview of what dog shit AI created games will be like (Starfield).
Just to preface, I am NOT shilling for any specific YT channel, but I could not just post the official trailer. It wouldn't show how awful the A.I. usage actually is.
I am pretty sure this game uses A.I. for nearly everything, especially the voices, lol:
I am pretty sure this game uses A.I. for nearly everything, especially the voices, lol: