Sadly, I think a bunch of the criticism is from anti-AI (pro "art") leftists, and the objection isn't even about the disrespect of the dead.
Yet another 'everyone sucks, just eat each other' scenario.
It's all "AI sucks," and "AI is the worst," and 'pay real people.'
It's funny, too, because I assume this is a well-paying gig...so what you have here is actually communists fighting for the bourgeoisie...because, surprising no one, commies are utter retards.
My objection is this feels like desecration. They're upset that they're not paying someone else a shit ton of money, and that they used AI.
I don't even like AI personally, but I also don't get outraged when it's used, because I'm not a mouth-breathing virtuesignaling moron.
Did he sign off on it though? James Earl Jones did before he died so that his voice could be synthesised in future works, Star Wars would be my assumption for this, so at least there it's the actual VA giving permission and not his family/estate making a cash grab.
One of the things limiting modern game design is the use of voice actors. It severely limits the scope of character interaction because dialogue trees have to rely on what they bothered to record. Older games where dialogue was text-based had far more interaction options you could scroll through. AI can greatly expand on what we have, both on the delivery and the wiring. Having a full conversation with an NPC on the politics and economics of the game world, and capping it off by insulting their family lineage would be amazing. But it won't be the technology that's the limiting factor, it's the backlash from those who would be made obsolete by it protesting.
I just don’t believe that it’ll happen, mostly because I don’t believe the studios are nearly as interested in replacing voice actors with AI as you think they are.
There is currently a strike going on against a bunch of AAA game devs nominally for this reason (if you don’t play gacha games, the other reasons don’t matter to you), and I believe that at least the AI portion of the strike will end up resolving in voice actors needing to be compensated for their voices being used in any model for generated voices.
I also don’t think that the demand for fandubbing is nearly as big as you think it is either, mostly because it’s mostly right wingers complaining about the quality and the amount of us who would actually use AI dubs in my opinion is way lower than you think.
AI voice acting is absolutely going to happen in video games because prerecorded speech options simply cannot compete with real-time generated dialogue. Look at BG3, easily the biggest game ever in terms of player choice supported by reams of prerecorded voice acted dialogue. Even then, “conversations” are trite branching systems with a handful of choices per branch.
Contrast this with extremely primitive implementations of chat AI in Skyrim. It’s like night and day. You can talk to companions and npcs alike about anything within the game world and frequently get interesting, reasonable, unique responses. For an interactive medium like video games, there is no comparison. AI is inevitable in gaming.
Dont give a fuck what a bunch of starving leftist retards think. Their hatred of AI is so fake. It is the perfect karma given that they were smug and gleeful of the idea of automation taking real jobs away from decent people.
This is creepy and obnoxious.
Sadly, I think a bunch of the criticism is from anti-AI (pro "art") leftists, and the objection isn't even about the disrespect of the dead.
Yet another 'everyone sucks, just eat each other' scenario.
It's all "AI sucks," and "AI is the worst," and 'pay real people.'
It's funny, too, because I assume this is a well-paying gig...so what you have here is actually communists fighting for the bourgeoisie...because, surprising no one, commies are utter retards.
My objection is this feels like desecration. They're upset that they're not paying someone else a shit ton of money, and that they used AI.
I don't even like AI personally, but I also don't get outraged when it's used, because I'm not a mouth-breathing virtuesignaling moron.
Reportedly, Jim Fagan's family signed off on this.
But I still don't like it.
There are lots of voiceover artists in New York. 4kids was based there.
It didn't even have to be New York--they could have gotten someone like Kyle Hebert, the old narrator for Dragon Ball Z.
Here's the deal: NBC paid TENS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS for these broadcasting rights. But they can't pay a real human to do voiceover?
Did he sign off on it though? James Earl Jones did before he died so that his voice could be synthesised in future works, Star Wars would be my assumption for this, so at least there it's the actual VA giving permission and not his family/estate making a cash grab.
Jim Fagan died in 2017, before AI vocal reproduction became popular.
James Earl Jones signed over his voice to AI in 2022.
He's been in a lot of films. Conan, an exorcist movie, lion king. Not all great, but I'd love to see his role brought back in a few.
Exactly how I feel. Still don't like it. It's creepy and pathetic.
I couldn't care less about this tbh.
Or maybe it's more accurate to say it's #1,677 on my list of concerns.
One of the things limiting modern game design is the use of voice actors. It severely limits the scope of character interaction because dialogue trees have to rely on what they bothered to record. Older games where dialogue was text-based had far more interaction options you could scroll through. AI can greatly expand on what we have, both on the delivery and the wiring. Having a full conversation with an NPC on the politics and economics of the game world, and capping it off by insulting their family lineage would be amazing. But it won't be the technology that's the limiting factor, it's the backlash from those who would be made obsolete by it protesting.
I just don’t believe that it’ll happen, mostly because I don’t believe the studios are nearly as interested in replacing voice actors with AI as you think they are.
There is currently a strike going on against a bunch of AAA game devs nominally for this reason (if you don’t play gacha games, the other reasons don’t matter to you), and I believe that at least the AI portion of the strike will end up resolving in voice actors needing to be compensated for their voices being used in any model for generated voices.
I also don’t think that the demand for fandubbing is nearly as big as you think it is either, mostly because it’s mostly right wingers complaining about the quality and the amount of us who would actually use AI dubs in my opinion is way lower than you think.
AI voice acting is absolutely going to happen in video games because prerecorded speech options simply cannot compete with real-time generated dialogue. Look at BG3, easily the biggest game ever in terms of player choice supported by reams of prerecorded voice acted dialogue. Even then, “conversations” are trite branching systems with a handful of choices per branch.
Contrast this with extremely primitive implementations of chat AI in Skyrim. It’s like night and day. You can talk to companions and npcs alike about anything within the game world and frequently get interesting, reasonable, unique responses. For an interactive medium like video games, there is no comparison. AI is inevitable in gaming.
AI voice improved alot in the past 2 years.
Dont give a fuck what a bunch of starving leftist retards think. Their hatred of AI is so fake. It is the perfect karma given that they were smug and gleeful of the idea of automation taking real jobs away from decent people.