VA has always been a tough gig because work is intermittent and there are a lot of people who want to break into it compared to the amount of work. So the biz ends up being about connections and social manipulation, thus all the drama.
I sympathize with the kneejerk reaction to AI. As an artist myself I experienced a bit of an existential crisis related to AI, but I decided to learn the tools and see what they can and can't do and now I'm working on integrating it into my own style seamlessly. Of course, there's also this constant dread of missing the latest update or technique that will change everything. True doomsday is probably on the horizon, but we're not there quite yet.
Every day there's a new person at the start of their own personal creative crisis though, so prepare to see this kind of thing happening for a long time.
With a calmer look at this situation, a VA could benefit from having an AI voice model. Previously, if a producer wanted a character to sing, they'd either be limited to VAs with singing chops or (more commonly in anime) they'd just use a different singer and hoped no one would notice. Now any character can sing or any singer can be a character, which could lubricate the market a little.
The song sounds pretty good, because the AI voice is following a real human's pacing and inflection. So the "acting" part of voice acting is more important than ever, at least for now. Flat delivery narrators are doomed though.
Bit off-topic: Especially in terms of art keep an eye out for SDXL which is supposed to come out this month. 0.9 is already out and could be a gamechanger in terms of what it can do now.
I've kinda given up on drawing mostly myself, I was never really good, but AI allows me to generate stuff I like, even "finish" the art I made. I just cannot do shading, at all it's the thing I hate with a passion. AI makes it easy.
VA has always been a tough gig because work is intermittent and there are a lot of people who want to break into it compared to the amount of work. So the biz ends up being about connections and social manipulation, thus all the drama.
I sympathize with the kneejerk reaction to AI. As an artist myself I experienced a bit of an existential crisis related to AI, but I decided to learn the tools and see what they can and can't do and now I'm working on integrating it into my own style seamlessly. Of course, there's also this constant dread of missing the latest update or technique that will change everything. True doomsday is probably on the horizon, but we're not there quite yet.
Every day there's a new person at the start of their own personal creative crisis though, so prepare to see this kind of thing happening for a long time.
With a calmer look at this situation, a VA could benefit from having an AI voice model. Previously, if a producer wanted a character to sing, they'd either be limited to VAs with singing chops or (more commonly in anime) they'd just use a different singer and hoped no one would notice. Now any character can sing or any singer can be a character, which could lubricate the market a little.
The song sounds pretty good, because the AI voice is following a real human's pacing and inflection. So the "acting" part of voice acting is more important than ever, at least for now. Flat delivery narrators are doomed though.
Bit off-topic: Especially in terms of art keep an eye out for SDXL which is supposed to come out this month. 0.9 is already out and could be a gamechanger in terms of what it can do now.
I've kinda given up on drawing mostly myself, I was never really good, but AI allows me to generate stuff I like, even "finish" the art I made. I just cannot do shading, at all it's the thing I hate with a passion. AI makes it easy.