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Voice actors speak out on AI in video games (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A high-profile dispute between Scarlett Johansson and the maker of ChatGPT has brought the subject of AI voices to the fore, but many others in the entertainment industry are affected too. Jennifer Hale and Linsay Rousseau say fair treatment for voice actors is important. (May 23, 2024)

from The Canadian Press

This commentary is from labor disputes last year, I wanted to post it here so that people would remember whose jobs they are trying to steal by pushing fake ai VO. We don't have to push corpo propaganda here. This is our space, err, [Chris Remington, alyaza [they/she], TheRtRevKaiser, gyrfalcon, rs5th, coldredlight, Leigh, TheRtRevKaiser]'s space. I don't think any of them are corporations, but maybe I am wrong?

Pushing AI propaganda is a bad move for infinite reasons, here are four:

it's usually an attack on workers
the industry steals directly from artists
these companies are massive polluters/ emitters
it makes you look like a rube

*edit 1 According to the laws of debate, one of you must reveal whichever podcast has you parroting comparisons of VO artists to horse workers *edit 2 Horse husbandry is also a major craft and fine art that ought not be mocked, whether or not it is useful to capitalists

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

While we're at it, we should also go after all the car companies for putting so many horse stables out of business. IBM for putting computers (this was a job title for humans before it was done by machine) out of jobs.

and a million other situations where technology has replaced a particular type of worker

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You’re welcome to play video games with shitty fake AI voices, but myself and tons of other folks definitely won’t be.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You won't even notice when it's done right. We're still in early days at the moment where you can actually tell.

You have fun checking the fine print on every future game just to make sure they haven't used it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Steam requires devs to place it right before the system requirements if they use it. Pretty big print, pretty easy to find. You can see it plain as day on the Black Ops 6 page.

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