Comment on SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 10 months agoI mean…of all the things to hate on AI for, this isn’t one. You don’t WANT an immitation voice. You want James Earl Jones. But he’s dead. AI is the best outcome possible.
No, I want it voiced by a trained actor.
I thought Terrance Howard was great in the first iron man, I was really bummed to find out they dropped him, then I saw the second one and you know what? Don cheadle knocked it out of the park.
I thought the daily show would be shit without Craig Kilbourn, and then bam, we get Jon Stewart. Pure gold.
If we had just used AI to knock off the originals we never would have seen other actors shine in the role
Yeah, but Epic broke the contract. Union has to sue or it’s not worth anything. Simple as.
That said, the union could have gotten something else out of this if Epic did the lawful thing. Even the fact that Epic acknowledged they need to follow the contract would have been valuable.
I disagree, I want working actors to get paid. I will always take Maurice LaMarche over an AI Orson Welles. Just get that YouTube Grocery Vader guy like they did for Force Unleashed, he’s great.
and I want higher quality lower budget games Irrigardless of silly actors.
You’re getting downvoted, but the move to fully-voiced dialogue absolutely killed the level of reactivity in games and AI is one of the few ways to bring that level of detail back without bloating budgets even higher than they already are.
Voice acting is expensive and anything players don’t hear is “wasted”, so you rarely see meaningful branching in storylines anymore outside of the biggest budget games. Look at the freaking encyclopedia that was Morrowind dialogue compared to the sound bytes used for conversations in Oblivion and Skyrim.
I’m not a fan of how AI has been handled by corporations, but if they set up a system where voice actors (and other creatives) could be hired to train models, get paid for every project that uses them, and have the right to look at and refuse projects the same as if they’d taken the contract normally, I’d be all for the AI revolution.
There’s a middle ground where generative AI is fair to creative talent and opens up a world of possibilities. It’s unlikely, but hopefully one day we get there.
Agreed
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Ha! That’s good shit. Thanks buddy :)
phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I do want an imitation voice, because I want new people. I don’t want to hear the voices of the dead just because companies don’t want to pony up. I’m ready for the next JEJ but that’ll never happen if the industry dies because companies have just been reusing AI voices instead of hiring anyone.
AI should be used for tedious tasks not creative ones.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s just classism repackaged.
LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Voicing lines/acting is all tedious to me unlike programming :3