So let’s hear it. Hand an AI Leviathan Wakes, the first book of The Expanse, and see how it does. My money is on it being garbage, but let’s hear it.
Jefferson Mays is tough to beat as a human.
Worse, hand an AI a Terry Pratchett book, see how that goes.
Calling it now, EA is going to do it anyway if they haven’t already, and tell them all to go pound sand.
Hopefully it’ll finally usher in their downfall. Can’t imagine the slop they’ll kick out with AI generated voices, models, scripts, and other assets.
I’m gonna be disappointed when it somehow makes them the most profitable game company of all time instead.
Considering EA is known for making sports games clones of each other that only change the year in the title and people still buy it, I wouldn’t be shocked if nothing comes out of this.
With judiciary cos playing lapdogs for oligarchs… Why wouldn’t EA fuck the pedon
Good for them
When Star Wars (1976) came out, it cost 12 million to make and had almost no advertising. The “advertising” was word-of-mouth.
Modern games and movies wouldn’t need to set aside 100 million dollar advertising budgets (on TOP of the cost of their product) if they would simply stop writing shit.
Then they wouldn’t have to make up the advertising costs with subtransactions (micro transactions doesn’t seem like the right word anymore when they cost over $5 a pop).
The great thing about ai is you don’t need to get a voice actor to do it
Just some random person that knows it won’t be a career and could use $5
You don’t even need that. You can generate a voice entirely through AI (or even non-AI tools that have existed for a long time before generative AI was a thing).
And it’d sound like they’re literally phoning it in. At that point, no, the artists and writers would just do it themselves. Like old times.
What this tech makes possible is hiring Nolan North to do everyone. Men, women, children, cats, dogs, stuffed toy dinosaurs, everyone. It’s mocap for your vocal cords. You don’t have to look like David Hayter to move like Snake, and you don’t have to sound like Michael Shapiro to talk like the G-Man. What people will hear and see is the performance.
sounds like EA
Voice actors fighting AI exploitation is the resistance we need in this dystopian tech landscape.
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AI will replace them. All they’re doing is buying themselves more time. I’m not saying it’s a good thing, but it will happen.
Using AI to recreate a real person’s voice is the dumbest possible use. It’s like drawing a cartoon that can only resemble a real living actor. Just… make something up. How does this character sound, in your head? Generate that, and then use style transfer, so anyone can do that voice.
Because the text-to-speech version is only the voice… not the character. You still want real human actors performing the character. The AI part is just a costume for their throat.
