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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Problem player sucks the life out of old dnd campaign, kills new one in the cradle.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Which basically just turns every NPC into a piñata. No thanks.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Problem player sucks the life out of old dnd campaign, kills new one in the cradle.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I'd probably be the person in my group being very skeptical of the gift economy idea. Functional gift economies are exceptionally complex. The ones that aren't very quickly switch to representational value exchange (aka money), because they can, because that's exponentially easier. A realistic gift economy wouldn't just be "doing favors." It involves a whole web of social conditions, obligations, organizations.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Do you not understand how unions work?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The contract would be a combination contract, for performance and AI training. That's explicitly the thing that's been agreed to here.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That's correct, but it's important to distinguish something explicitly here. The voices may not be copyrightable, but the dialogue is, as long as it's not also generated by AI (i.e., dynamically generated). Also, the trained model that generates the voice is still proprietary: only its product (and only the sound itself, not the words if the speech is from a script) can be openly used.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It does, yes. And they can also choose to opt out of future uses of their voice in the AI trained model. Which essentially means that their contracts are on a per-project basis, rather than forcing them to contract for the current project and any future use of the model by the game developer.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
That's... what this agreement proposes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Video game actors speak out after union announces AI voice deal⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
This deal solves the problem you're encountering, because it allows game companies to use real voices to generate dialogue. It will sound a hell of a lot better than 100% AI generated voices.

And it will protect voice actors' jobs because the deal effectively requires new contracts for each use out of scope of the previous contract (i.e., the "opt out" language), and it encourages game companies to continue to rely on voice actors rather than switch to 100% AI generated.

Without this deal, game devs will just go 100% AI (and the tech will improve dramatically), and within a year or two, game voice actors will have no jobs to contract.

This is especially important in light of the trend toward dynamically generated dialogue in RPGs, etc. Without allowing an AI to train on real voice actors, dynamically generated dialogue will have to be 100% AI generated (no human voice involvement).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are MRNA vaccines any riskier than other vaccines?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Even if risks are under-reported (plausible, but unlikely, given the amount of scrutiny), it's definitely the case that the risks from getting COVID are still not fully understood. Long COVID is a major issue that is still under investigation. So by your own metric - "highly reluctant to try the new possibly risky thing" - the vaccine is important. Because "the new possibly risky thing" in this case is getting COVID. You definitely don't want to "try" that.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It's about the same as everywhere else. The most fun I have on any social media platform these days is blocking assholes.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
If Kbin defederates from Threads, I'll just leave Kbin, and stay with Threads. Defederating over vibes is not how the fediverse is supposed to operate.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This 28-year-old pays $62 a month to live in a dumpster he built for $5,000—take a look inside⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I would totally live in a van except for the lack of wired internet. :(
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't they using drones and more automation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

Their mission is to explore and contact new life, which is more likely to be successful with a human touch.

Have you met us? ;)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why aren't they using drones and more automation?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
No one's going to watch a realistic exploration sci-fi show about small unmanned ships quietly going about their jobs with no drama.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you call someone born in the US besides "American"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:
Stick with "American" because not only is it partially accurate geographically, it's completely accurate in terms of how self-centered we are as a nation as to think we're the only ones who count.