I don’t think this is a 0-100 thing. They were pressed for time and money, had a whole foot in ML already for the pathfinding stuff. AI resentment was nowhere near its current level and only vocal in niche dev instances on the fediverse. The two actors in the vidoc at least claim they were really well compensated and their contracts protected their rights fairly. At least Embark did not go full hog AI praise - they remade character models, re-recorded voice lines. Ofc. fuck gen AI, it’s a planet eating shit machine, made to entrench and disown creative work and workers.
Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that"
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Desischnix@fedinsfw.app 6 hours ago
sidebro@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
This is a bullshit excuse and he knows it. It’s about money. Just say that.
RamRabbit@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Meanwhile, audiobooks exist and are commonly 30+ hours long with a single actor.
albbi@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
They ended the quote early. It should be: “’actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that AI generated bullshit”