Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 months agowithin a year or two AI actors will have no jobs
extreeeeeme doubt. The moment an AI has to inflect emotion it really fucks it up. You’ll spend 5 hours and $200 getting it to say “Great, thanks” sarcastically, when an actor could do it in a single take as part of doing the entire script.
greenskye@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Honestly I just don’t think a lot of people will care. They’ll just get used to the lower quality. AI only has to be ‘good enough to still sell’. Do you really think that gamers are the consumers that are going to be ones to fight back against it? The same consumers that have rolled over to basically every other exploitative practice ever conceived of?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
at the levels we’re talking - maybe an indie studio could deliberately, stylistically, pull it off. But a AAA studio? To whom their VO budget is less than what they pay an executive. It just leaves them open to competitors making a game with good voice acting, and their own game getting panned in the press.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 months ago
I think people will be bothered if the voice acting in their games sounds like it could have been done by Stephen Hawking (or with less exaggeration, like an actor doing their first reading of a script).
greenskye@lemm.ee 5 months ago
You aren’t up to date if you think modern AI voices sound like Stephen hawking.