Do you have any source for those claims? There are plenty of better reasons to develop voice synthesis than replacing voice actors.
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The technology was created to replace voice actors. That’s the actual purpose. Its very existence hurts their profession and benefits studios. You can not be a studio, use this technology, and claim to care about ethics, anymore than Amazon can claim to care about the workers as it invests in the machines to replace them.
It doesn’t matter if you compensate or get their approval, because the fact is the existence of the technology in the industry effectively compels all voice actors to agree to let it use their voice, or they can’t get work. It becomes a false choice.
If there was no financial benefit, if it truly made no difference in how much a studio pays in labor or the amount the artists make, there would be no reason for studios to want to use it.
Even_Adder@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
GalacticHero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Voiced characters that use generative AI in real time instead of prerecorded lines and a dialogue tree come to mind as an obvious use. How cool would that be, to be playing an RPG and ask any character any question you want and get an actual verbal answer? No way you can do that with voice actors.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I find it to be very off putting that Baldur’s Gate 3 doesn’t have voice actors for the main character.
There are so many different races that would have different voices and different accents that it wouldn’t be financially viable to do that with voice actors either.
PotatoKat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They originally did for the beta (for origin characters at least) but the players didn’t really like it so the feature was removed
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The only real ethical concern is around the training data. If all voices are compensated / actively consent to be used in an AI program, then this is just a tool. People losing jobs doesn’t really matter to an individual company. Industries change and technology advances.
So the real problem is they are using these types of tools, built of the skill of other voice actors, without properly compensating them or getting their consent.
style99@lemm.ee 1 month ago
What’s the point of bringing up “ethics?” The job only existed in the first place because of technology, and now people want to argue that there is a right or wrong aspect to it?
How about the poor candle makers or buggy whip manufacturers? Should we keep downgrading society just to keep a few “artists” happy?
card797@champserver.net 1 month ago
The term Luddite comes to mind.
novibe@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Luddites were not anti-technology. They saw the progress of technology IN a primitive capitalist system and understood that technology would never benefit them, and always be used to subjugate them more.
If technology only benefits 0.1% of the world, and lead to the world dying, does it benefit humanity at all?
DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 month ago
Downgrading because we want people to stay employed?
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 month ago
The concern is that the training and potentially production voices are not properly compensated or consenting
It’s not so much that a new tool is used, it’s that it exists due to the artistic product of people who aren’t profiting from the novel use
Summzashi@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Old man yells at cloud
Cypher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Good to see you have formed a strong opinion without having all of the information.
Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Technology making labour obsolete is the goal we should all be wanting.
Attack capitalism not the technology.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True, but it’s not quite working out that way is it?