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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I want to agree with Beart but...

SAG et al have already more or less abandoned voice actors. In the very near future it won't matter if actors agree to work for these companies because they won't NEED those actors. They'll have training data or they'll pay randos off the street to generate some training data that they then heavily tweak to sound like Ashley Burch and so forth.

And before people pretend that consumers won't stand for that: Anyone with any knowledge of scene composition or lighting clowns on Netflix et al near constnatly. Guess what the super popular movies that everyone watches are? Because, yeah, there will still be works of art like a Blade Runner or even an Anora (the plot was shite but the cinematography was peak). They'll pale in comparison to people pretending they aren't going to watch Happy Gilmore 2.

And same with VA. People will claim they are opposed and it is horrible and complete trash compared to a human... and they'll still buy the games until having "human" voice acting is the exception and only for "arthouse" games.

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Happy Gilmore 2.

WTF? Why is this a thing?

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[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

I think Béart is a good voice actor but I don't think that gives her special insight into the future of AI development. On the contrary, those people who would lose both money and meaning if a certain task is done well by a machine will be biased towards underestimating the probability that that task will be done well by a machine in the near future.

[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good point. Kinda like the animators at animation studios that refused to move to the computer for their work, where are they all now? As technology progresses, people eother adapt or get left behind.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I'm actually somewhat sympathetic to those guys, at least because an older relative of mine was a skilled mechanical engineer who simply could not make the transition from pencil-and-paper drafting to CAD software despite trying very hard. He had the common "old people have difficulty using computers" problem despite actually having a great deal of interest in the new technology.

With that said, he was out of a job whether or not he deserved that.

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