Comment on Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves'

• GalacticHero@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • PotatoKat@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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