arquebus_x
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- Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal 5 months ago:
That's correct, but it's important to distinguish something explicitly here. The voices may not be copyrightable, but the dialogue is, as long as it's not also generated by AI (i.e., dynamically generated). Also, the trained model that generates the voice is still proprietary: only its product (and only the sound itself, not the words if the speech is from a script) can be openly used.
- Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal 5 months 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.
- Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal 5 months ago:
That's... what this agreement proposes.
- Comment on Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal 5 months ago:
This deal solves the problem you're encountering, because it allows game companies to use real voices to generate dialogue. It will sound a hell of a lot better than 100% AI generated voices.
And it will protect voice actors' jobs because the deal effectively requires new contracts for each use out of scope of the previous contract (i.e., the "opt out" language), and it encourages game companies to continue to rely on voice actors rather than switch to 100% AI generated.
Without this deal, game devs will just go 100% AI (and the tech will improve dramatically), and within a year or two, game voice actors will have no jobs to contract.
This is especially important in light of the trend toward dynamically generated dialogue in RPGs, etc. Without allowing an AI to train on real voice actors, dynamically generated dialogue will have to be 100% AI generated (no human voice involvement).
- Comment on Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines? 5 months ago:
Even if risks are under-reported (plausible, but unlikely, given the amount of scrutiny), it's definitely the case that the risks from getting COVID are still not fully understood. Long COVID is a major issue that is still under investigation. So by your own metric - "highly reluctant to try the new possibly risky thing" - the vaccine is important. Because "the new possibly risky thing" in this case is getting COVID. You definitely don't want to "try" that.
- Comment on How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media? 5 months ago:
It's about the same as everywhere else. The most fun I have on any social media platform these days is blocking assholes.
- Comment on [deleted] 7 months ago:
Duct. Duck is a brand name
Yes. But also mostly no.
Wikipedia:
"Duck tape" is recorded in the Oxford English Dictionary as having been in use since 1899 and "duct tape" (described as "perhaps an alteration of earlier duck tape") since 1965
and:
In 1971, Jack Kahl bought the Anderson firm and renamed it Manco. In 1975, Kahl rebranded the duct tape made by his company. Because the previously used generic term "duck tape" had fallen out of use, he was able to trademark the brand "Duck Tape" and market his product complete with a yellow cartoon duck logo. Manco chose the term "Duck", the tape's original name, as "a play on the fact that people often refer to duct tape as 'duck tape'", and as a marketing differentiation to stand out against other sellers of duct tape.
People should really do the bare minimum double-check before showing their whole ass.
- Comment on How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"? 8 months ago:
Stick with "American" because not only is it partially accurate geographically, it's completely accurate in terms of how self-centered we are as a nation as to think we're the only ones who count.