Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal

dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes but it also means that the studios can only hire someone who will sign off on it.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Not if they want a particular name, like Elias Toufexis seems pretty against having his voice cloned.

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    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s fine for people who are established, but unions are supposed to protect all members, especially the ones just getting started who don’t have as much bargaining power.

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      • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Then everyone should unionise and fall under the same protections. It’s how it works here in Sweden.

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• arquebus_x@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It does, yes. And they can also choose to opt out of future uses of their voice in the AI trained model. Which essentially means that their contracts are on a per-project basis, rather than forcing them to contract for the current project and any future use of the model by the game developer.

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  • dojan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The way I see it, if they want to train models on someone’s voice they should hire them specifically for that purpose. Ergo, clips that are used in production should not be used for training voice models.

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