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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I know what the article is. I’m talking about the conversation of AI voice work in general as tangential to the topic.

  Maybe don’t be so presumptive or act like an indecent asshole to people just because they aren’t parroting the same shit you are?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'AI is coming for all of us:' Mass Effect, Metal Gear Solid, and Baldur's Gate voice actor Jennifer Hale weighs in on SAG-AFTRA's games industry strike⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have sympathy for voice actors, the situation is obviously complex for them. But, and I’ve said this numerous times to numerous people, AI voice work is probably going to end up being cheaper and much more voluminous. That’s exactly what developers need for procedurally generated games where they want to see “all” of the characters voiced.

  I’m not saying anyone should try to use AI to voice main characters in standard video games. However, this isn’t about standard video games.

  The fact is, mass voice work in procedurally generated games is something that can only ever be accomplished with AI.

  The whole Rogue-like genre is constantly evolving. And yeah, a lot of the development is bad. If you’re in that scene, you probably know what I’m talking about - lots of dead end projects, lots of pointless feature sets, lots of pointless busywork being disguised as game mechanics, slot machine nonsense, etc, ad nauseam. Nonetheless, AI generated voice work is obviously going to be used there at some point.

  I have a hard time believing that a lot of people are going to lose their jobs to AI voice work. The voice work generated through AI is not comparable to what people can do. Again, that isn’t the issue. The economy is in the dumps, and AI is the only way to afford voice work for games that are designed around procedurally generated voice work.

  You can be upset at losing your job. But, throwing a wrench at a wrench because you think the wrench is screwing you, is just stupid. Corporations might screw you. But, the technology itself is just technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really hard for some people to believe that this would ever be the truth. At the very minimum, this is like 50% of the truth, and the other 50% is worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not casually stealing comments⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling it “stealing comments” is an interesting way of rewording for what is obviously bot spam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should there be an "ALL OFF" button to instantly shut down all these new AI Defense bots that the Military in the US want to build and deploy in the thousands?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Well said.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Weekly Discussion Topic - 4X Games - 30-08-2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  HoMM3 with WoG mod is a ton of fun. Songs of Conquest is 4X I believe. Also great fun.

  I think EXplore is the big thing for me. The more incentive you have to explore, and the more content to be explored, the more enjoyable the game is.

  I way prefer Sci-Fantasy, but it’s a toss up between the Sci or the Fantasy.

  I think Grand Strategy is where I’m at right now, and I tend to focus a lot of games in that area.

  What is the smartest way to get into Stellaris right now? I’m waiting for the whole DLC package to get marked down in November or something like that. The Steam Workshop pretty much controls mods right now, so GoG isn’t an option from what I’ve read.

  For people who play Stellaris regularly, I recognize that the game has been less popular recently. Is there a specific reason for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should there be an "ALL OFF" button to instantly shut down all these new AI Defense bots that the Military in the US want to build and deploy in the thousands?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll just murder a bunch of people and then be turned off after having been shown to be ineffective too dangerous.

  It’s not like AI is reliable at this point. Way too many people are actively ignoring experts pointing this fact out and instead obsessing over Skynet or w/e made up sci-fi BS.

  Rather than be used for war, they’ll be used for threats of violence and propaganda. It’s not a new problem. It’s just a new version of that same problem.