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SAG-AFTRA's new agreement lets game devs use AI voices
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Aside from the anti-labour implications of this stuff, even as a consumer it is horrifying to imagine a world where we are constantly questioning whether or not some media was generated by AI. There's something violating about it.
I don't care if a machine learning system is being used in some very self-contained way, like to do basic voice-to-speech in a game with a lot of procedurally-generated text. That can even be an important accessibility feature.
However, as soon as it's being passed off as a real human performance with emotional depth and authorial intent, it's gross and I don't want it in my brain.
This is already affecting me tbh. Like autotune in popular music though, the majority of people will probably just forget (if they ever notice in the first place) that it exists.
I'm about to get real insufferable calling out the inhuman and thieving.