Step away from the wokeness debate for a moment and look at it objectively. Is AI's replacement of voice acting and mapping good for the industry as a whole?
I think it's better for independent studios, for example, maybe there's only a few people or solo working on a project, & let's say one person has a little bit of vocal training but maybe isnt right for the profession.. this person could (eventually) use certain models to take one voice and redub it with a new voice. So even guys could voice a female character more convincingly. & the reverse. Without the vocal training or range. I mean, these CAN BE used as good tools. I'm not exactly seeing that quite yet, but it seems that this could happen soon & to an extent has already begun. That's my take on it atm. Hollywood is gatekeeping technology that's already been in use a long time. Queen of the Damned featured a character that was almost entirely CGI for a large chunk of the film, because she died during production. (RIP) & just saying. Voice or video, this isn't new (exactly, I get that things are changing still) in the regard that these things have already been happening for years, but only now is it closer to being widely available to everyone.
From the AI I have tested no. It isn't there yet it lacks emotions and inflections of a natural speaker. It may pass for indie but AAA no. They would have to show content that AI vocal can fool an audience. But who knows they just may bend people to accept subpar.
@@UltimateGamerCC All these industries trying to use AI to replace workers but when people don't have the money to buy their products they cry about not meeting profit margins. No workers, no money to buy then no profit to gain. It's called checks and balances but greed is always blind.
I honestly think it could be 50\50 because on one hand ai you dont have to pay or worry about it saying something dumb and makimg there company look bad but on the other hand not all Vas are bad but also i dont know if AI could have the same emotion in there voice like a real person. Thas what i think im spilt betwen both sides i dont believe innocent VAs should be replaced with ai.
SAG-AFTRA chose the worst possible industry to strike. - Unlike film, television and radio, production of video games doesn't stop for voice acting. THE MAJORITY OF VIDEO GAMES HAVE NO VOICE ACTING WHATSOEVER. - Games can be made in genres that don't require voice acting beyond short clips and in fact sub-AAA games like The Finals are already experimenting with AI voice to push out more content. And included among those genres is story-heavy RPG. Look up how the original version of Trails in the Sky was like. - Voice actors are not entitled to getting paid in games with any budget level below AAA, especially not indies. Literally every other position is more necessary to put together a game like Trails in the Sky than voice actors when you're limited by budget. - Foreign games dubbed by non-American actors can just opt to not hire American actors to begin with. - AND on top of that, procedurally generated dialogue is a very intriguing technology to explore and adapt to the very interactive nature of video games. I mean, this is a worse industry for SAG-AFTRA than the book industry. The book industry will survive just fine without audio books. The game industry will not only survive just fine without voice acting (that was how the game industry survived to begin with - without voice acting), it is potentially enhanced by having AI-generated voice.
I respect voice actors in the sense that they can make their voice reach different ranges to really bring life to the characters they portray, however, voice actors have become very overrated in recent years, mainly in the American industry. This is because of the dozens of controversies you hear about English voice actors such as them disrespecting their audience, only hiring voice actors based on race rather than skill, and even some situations where the English voice actors refused to work on a gacha game because they were "offended" that the game in question has fanservice. Japanese voice actors are safe. They're respectful and appreciate their job. If English VA's don't get their shit together, AI will replace them, and considering the way they treat their audience, I wouldn't care if AI did replace them.
Every bit of what you said has been my issue with them in recent years as well. Also have a major problem with how these cliques of sorts have canceled other VAs due to them not peddling the same BS mentioned. As Mugen brought up its already a tough business financial to live out as is with a small portion making heavyweight money while the industry generates stupid coin. Then they cancel some of their own because they dont side with this or that? Now some of them are feeling what its like to be cut out in a sense as well and want to cry about it.
@@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s I agree with everything you said. The Vic Mignogna situation sums up my problems with the current VA scene. He voiced many games that I respect, even niche ones like Atelier Iris 3 and Yggdra Union. He didn't deserve to be cancelled over nonsense.
My point exactly. People are tired of giving money to people who hate them, and the western hemisphere of the entertainment industry has become overpopulated with them.
It always sucks when AI takes away jobs, 'What gives these companies right to take over the years of human knowledge for their own profit while throwing away the human" is a phrase I heard once, mainly criticizing Tesla factories. Makes you think, know you're not only the product but part of the creation without even being involved, and they still want to sell that to you. Still, funny how when it's "regular" jobs there are only crickets or people saying you should have gotten prepared and studied something else, yet when it affects art related fields everyone loses their minds.
It should be illegal for all jobs to be replaced with AI unless know one wants that job these companies especially monopolys should be allowed to use them to this extent because if people cant work where can people get money to survive.
If an A.I. takeover is inevitable, companies need to provide large compensation to the voice actors. Some of these VAs find this job very personally; I remember the original VA for Heihachi Mishima committed suicide from depression of going blind and not being able to read voice lines for the character. That shows just how personal this talent is for most people. On a related note: A company called Meta is offering millions of dollars to celebrities Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key, and others to use their voices for A.I projects.
I just finished Death Stranding last night, and I'm going to argue the other side of it, where a game touts a celebrity, like Lindsay Wagner and Guillermo del Toro, only for you to find out they didn't do motion capture or voice acting, but only provided their likeness. Is that misrepresenting their performance? Is it exploiting a celebrity name to sell a game, then giving you a bait and switch? There's a lot of issues that have yet to be discussed. I did a voice acting project when I was a teenager, only to go to the premier and find out that I had been replaced. They led me on the whole time and then didn't use my recording at all. I don't blame them (I had zero acting experience at the time), but I probably wouldn't have told people and brought others to hear my work if they would have been honest with me. It was just really embarrassing. I totally understand how Troy felt there.
I don't think AI has what it takes to replace actual VAs. From the Skyrim AI-voiced mods I've seen and played, to the fully dedicated AI-voice channels on this site, the delivery all too often stiff and tonally discordant with what is supposed to be said, along with being inconsistent in pronunciation. That said, ENG VAs have lost all sympathy with a lot of people, especially those who enjoy foreign-made media. With how they keep doing the same insufferable know-nothing-know-it-all 🐴💩that Hollywood celebrities keep doing, and get confused when the audience tells them that they don't care and just want good products, why wouldn't they? People would rather take an inferior, but workable product from people who appreciate them, over something from those who hate their guts.
Voice AI is at a pretty scary state currently. As an experiment I trained my voice using RVC on my computer and it's pretty shocking what a good trained model can do. I've made songs and used scripts with it and it's so surreal to hear myself sing and say things I've never actually recorded naturally. There's definitely a lot of founded fear with this being used in industries that are already really tough to break into.
I will feel bad for good people to lose their jobs over things like AI. In that regard, I can understand going on strike. On the other hand, going on strike with AI being here to stay is going to give these companies motivation to have them replaced. Certain bad apples in the scene, along with localizers these days, make me less sympathetic.
While I'm not keen on the politics that some VAs seem to bring with them to their work, I think they have a point regarding studios using their vocal likeness via AI. If their voices are being uses in tandem with AI, they should get some kind of compensation for it.
I'm mixed on this because on one hand I don't want AI to takeover voice acting, but on the other I find it hard to feel that bad for them because the virtue signaling that some of them do. I know it's not all of them, but the one's that it is are loud.
A lot of voice actors in America tend to hate the projects they work on. And besides that, voice actors have always been just a handful of people voicing 100s of characters. If not Ai, the voice acting industry definitely needs new talent.
There's plenty of other regions in the world that speak the language natively and/or fluently that will be easier and cheaper to negotiate with who they can't control with their unions. I'm all for licensing and royalties, that's a given, no augment there, but they will eventually overstep and further encourage their own demise, some already are with Eastern games. These gatekeepers will help crash the market and it won't recover.
Sometimes unions can be shit, but let's not forget they are essential to deal with the corporations/elites. The problem is that so many union heads become corrupted.
crazy time we're living in, where a voice actor who's likely beloved by their fans is being replaced by the industry without their consent, just so the industry can pocket more of the cash.
Putting my hatred towards wokeness aside, The AI stuff in general isn't good for industry if it's costing actual talent to be discarded from work. However we would've never been in this situation in the first place if merit based hiring was still a thing. I do believe there are companies who will still replace talented workers with Ai because corporate greed even if DEI was never a thing but I also believe there are companies who are forced to go along with DEI because the terrible economy right now is destroying them and they're trying to get as much money as possible in order to avoid bankruptcy. This ends up being a lose lose situation though since those DEI practices will just breed activist employees who want to destroy these companies anyway. Moral of the story is there's no stopping AI if it means these companies can save even a tiny bit of money.
From my experience with Elevenlabs, AI Voice Acting isn’t and possibly never will be at a point where it’ll fully replace human voice actors. There are some good Meme and Comedy skits here on TH-cam that use well-made AI voice clones, but those require a lot of work to get right. I can see AI Voice software replacing Background Character Voice Acting so that studios can focus on the voicing the main cast of characters (assuming a game has any Voice Acting that is), but other than that, AI will likely never replace human voice-over work.
*Striking is the worst thing they can do right now, they're just giving developers more of a reason to replace them 😂 embrace AI and it will make you a better voice actor. try to compete with it and you can ring up my Reese's cups and Mucho Mango Arizona tea at Walmart* 🙌
@@astreakaito5625do you get this angry at google/youtube for selling all your data? & about Microsoft putting literal spyware baked into their OS? Do you get mad about Palantir storing data about every poop you've ever taken? When you were a child & learned about art, visual or audio, your preferences were shaped in part to your experiences with various works of art. Some things you liked, things you didn't, blah blah blah, even things which inspired your art, is it still not "your art" (if it is not plagiarized, ie fair use or licensing) ? I am against stealing and selling data, them not getting consent, and more. But I think if it's clearly different & not a clone, barely different clone, or a clone of a clone, then it could be legitimate. That's my perspective. If I missed an angle, let me know cause I'd love to consider it. ~
Personality I think is kinda of bad for the voice actors, not the activists, but I believe that just like in art AI will be used more like a tool in the process of creation. In the end corporations will always "corporate" let's see what happens.
Honestly I think AI can be a good or bad thing depends on the user on using it. AI is nothing but a tool, and the problem with it is the way most people using that said tool. As for AI replacing Voice Actors from what I've seen people on the internet saw that as cause and effect problem as people mostly hate VAs not for their performance but their attitude on the internet (Hating their own fanbase, and spewing political activism for example). Hence why those people would cheer when said VA would be replaced by AI or some other VAs that didn't do those stuff and just as good on Voice Acting.
To be fair I do not mind about Voice Actors speaking out about those stuff as long as they did a good job on Voice Acting, but there's a time and place to do so. And unfortunately for some people those VAs tend to do it way too much to the point of those people are getting sick of it.
Good. They can stay struck. They are superfluous. Don't even need the likenesses. That was just a vanity project anyway (and usually uglified). Easier to make a completely new virtual person.
While I feel for the good people that just want to voice act, unfortunately progress is inevitable, I'm generally not in favor of needless regulations as most of the times it just benefits those in power, I'd be fine with a law that explicitly allows voice actors to patent their voice for life and charge a licensing fee or royalties depending on the agreement. As of now, my advice to voice actors especially new ones, don't be fooled this could be a great opportunity, mainly if you have or know of businesses you can trust as you could try to convince them to advertise their product(s) as Non-AI voice acting, or make your own AI pack and license it out, also don't support the strike as that would only "prove" to businesses you want to control them and push them further toward using AI. This could be a great opportunity to overthrow the current voice acting buréaucracy if y'all play your card right. This is just my opinion, but as impressive as AI voice is, it still doesn't sound quite human to me.
they should do what hollweird does, with their trailers exactly the same style, the same `drama` kind of music remixes and styles that have no relevance to the time period of the film, and annoying cuts that are supposed to `leave us wanting more`. it`s totally cringe and anyone could do it. Just take one male and female voice and use it for everything. Lord knows western gaming is more or less ded and buried in social engineering narratives now anyway.
Unpopular opinion but I feel no pity for them, they threw us under the bus over politics and now except us to have their back when their position is threatened
As an artist I'm also on strike, sort of. I just didn't share a single piece of art since last year. I'm essentially done with what I could call my artistic career.. Though I'm still drawing and improving my skills because it makes me happy and ai art will never be real, it's just glorified art theft. I have little sympathy for western voice actor but ai voices is also stealing their voice and body of work in order to function, so it's not legit, and I wouldn't accept any videogames that makes extensive use of ai voice acting anyway and I think the practice should be deemed illegal (it's already immoral)
Anime could suffer the most as Japan has a VA culture. However I'm not sure about DA Veilguard people as the developers have been preaching about DEI a lot.
Step away from the wokeness debate for a moment and look at it objectively. Is AI's replacement of voice acting and mapping good for the industry as a whole?
I think it's better for independent studios, for example, maybe there's only a few people or solo working on a project, & let's say one person has a little bit of vocal training but maybe isnt right for the profession.. this person could (eventually) use certain models to take one voice and redub it with a new voice. So even guys could voice a female character more convincingly. & the reverse. Without the vocal training or range. I mean, these CAN BE used as good tools. I'm not exactly seeing that quite yet, but it seems that this could happen soon & to an extent has already begun.
That's my take on it atm. Hollywood is gatekeeping technology that's already been in use a long time. Queen of the Damned featured a character that was almost entirely CGI for a large chunk of the film, because she died during production. (RIP) & just saying. Voice or video, this isn't new (exactly, I get that things are changing still) in the regard that these things have already been happening for years, but only now is it closer to being widely available to everyone.
From the AI I have tested no. It isn't there yet it lacks emotions and inflections of a natural speaker. It may pass for indie but AAA no. They would have to show content that AI vocal can fool an audience. But who knows they just may bend people to accept subpar.
hell naw, it aint good for the industry at all. AI is 100% bad news and that will always be the case.
@@UltimateGamerCC All these industries trying to use AI to replace workers but when people don't have the money to buy their products they cry about not meeting profit margins. No workers, no money to buy then no profit to gain. It's called checks and balances but greed is always blind.
I honestly think it could be 50\50 because on one hand ai you dont have to pay or worry about it saying something dumb and makimg there company look bad but on the other hand not all Vas are bad but also i dont know if AI could have the same emotion in there voice like a real person. Thas what i think im spilt betwen both sides i dont believe innocent VAs should be replaced with ai.
The difference between AI and American voice actors is that AI don't actively want to destroy the industry they work on.
The disgusting localizers are also responsible for turning modern day gaming into joke.
STOP HIRING TOURISTS!!!!
I don’t care about who’s in charge of the Localization process, regardless of it’s an AI, human, gorilla, dog, cat, space alien etc.
SAG-AFTRA chose the worst possible industry to strike.
- Unlike film, television and radio, production of video games doesn't stop for voice acting. THE MAJORITY OF VIDEO GAMES HAVE NO VOICE ACTING WHATSOEVER.
- Games can be made in genres that don't require voice acting beyond short clips and in fact sub-AAA games like The Finals are already experimenting with AI voice to push out more content. And included among those genres is story-heavy RPG. Look up how the original version of Trails in the Sky was like.
- Voice actors are not entitled to getting paid in games with any budget level below AAA, especially not indies. Literally every other position is more necessary to put together a game like Trails in the Sky than voice actors when you're limited by budget.
- Foreign games dubbed by non-American actors can just opt to not hire American actors to begin with.
- AND on top of that, procedurally generated dialogue is a very intriguing technology to explore and adapt to the very interactive nature of video games.
I mean, this is a worse industry for SAG-AFTRA than the book industry. The book industry will survive just fine without audio books. The game industry will not only survive just fine without voice acting (that was how the game industry survived to begin with - without voice acting), it is potentially enhanced by having AI-generated voice.
Result of siding with agendas
while never thinking they too could be steamrolled as well.
I respect voice actors in the sense that they can make their voice reach different ranges to really bring life to the characters they portray, however, voice actors have become very overrated in recent years, mainly in the American industry.
This is because of the dozens of controversies you hear about English voice actors such as them disrespecting their audience, only hiring voice actors based on race rather than skill, and even some situations where the English voice actors refused to work on a gacha game because they were "offended" that the game in question has fanservice. Japanese voice actors are safe. They're respectful and appreciate their job. If English VA's don't get their shit together, AI will replace them, and considering the way they treat their audience, I wouldn't care if AI did replace them.
Every bit of what you said has been my issue with them in recent years as well.
Also have a major problem with how these cliques of sorts have canceled other VAs due to them not peddling the same BS mentioned.
As Mugen brought up its already a tough business financial to live out as is with a small portion making heavyweight money while the industry generates stupid coin.
Then they cancel some of their own because they dont side with this or that?
Now some of them are feeling what its like to be cut out in a sense as well and want to cry about it.
@@observer.b_e_l_l_i_s I agree with everything you said. The Vic Mignogna situation sums up my problems with the current VA scene. He voiced many games that I respect, even niche ones like Atelier Iris 3 and Yggdra Union. He didn't deserve to be cancelled over nonsense.
A lot of the time, I wonder if they actually mean what they say in posts on Social Media.
@@-._____-I still wish that whole mess never happened and I certainly wish Anime companies didn’t listen to Social Media users.
My point exactly. People are tired of giving money to people who hate them, and the western hemisphere of the entertainment industry has become overpopulated with them.
It always sucks when AI takes away jobs, 'What gives these companies right to take over the years of human knowledge for their own profit while throwing away the human" is a phrase I heard once, mainly criticizing Tesla factories.
Makes you think, know you're not only the product but part of the creation without even being involved, and they still want to sell that to you.
Still, funny how when it's "regular" jobs there are only crickets or people saying you should have gotten prepared and studied something else, yet when it affects art related fields everyone loses their minds.
It should be illegal for all jobs to be replaced with AI unless know one wants that job these companies especially monopolys should be allowed to use them to this extent because if people cant work where can people get money to survive.
If an A.I. takeover is inevitable, companies need to provide large compensation to the voice actors. Some of these VAs find this job very personally; I remember the original VA for Heihachi Mishima committed suicide from depression of going blind and not being able to read voice lines for the character. That shows just how personal this talent is for most people.
On a related note: A company called Meta is offering millions of dollars to celebrities Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key, and others to use their voices for A.I projects.
DEI and ESG are to blame for all of this madness
Yes sir
I just finished Death Stranding last night, and I'm going to argue the other side of it, where a game touts a celebrity, like Lindsay Wagner and Guillermo del Toro, only for you to find out they didn't do motion capture or voice acting, but only provided their likeness. Is that misrepresenting their performance? Is it exploiting a celebrity name to sell a game, then giving you a bait and switch? There's a lot of issues that have yet to be discussed.
I did a voice acting project when I was a teenager, only to go to the premier and find out that I had been replaced. They led me on the whole time and then didn't use my recording at all. I don't blame them (I had zero acting experience at the time), but I probably wouldn't have told people and brought others to hear my work if they would have been honest with me. It was just really embarrassing. I totally understand how Troy felt there.
Another strike here we go with this shit again
Simply wonderful! Thank you for your hard work and talent!
AI is taking over
The machines is taking over!
Elon warned us about AI, but no one wanted to listen.
They don't care.
I don't think AI has what it takes to replace actual VAs. From the Skyrim AI-voiced mods I've seen and played, to the fully dedicated AI-voice channels on this site, the delivery all too often stiff and tonally discordant with what is supposed to be said, along with being inconsistent in pronunciation.
That said, ENG VAs have lost all sympathy with a lot of people, especially those who enjoy foreign-made media. With how they keep doing the same insufferable know-nothing-know-it-all 🐴💩that Hollywood celebrities keep doing, and get confused when the audience tells them that they don't care and just want good products, why wouldn't they? People would rather take an inferior, but workable product from people who appreciate them, over something from those who hate their guts.
Voice AI is at a pretty scary state currently. As an experiment I trained my voice using RVC on my computer and it's pretty shocking what a good trained model can do. I've made songs and used scripts with it and it's so surreal to hear myself sing and say things I've never actually recorded naturally. There's definitely a lot of founded fear with this being used in industries that are already really tough to break into.
Reuben Flagg was the first. 'Plexus Rangers! Wakka ding hoy!'
As much as I hated AI at first I'm actually REALLY starting to like it more and more now! Especially when it can replace these idiots in the industry!
I will feel bad for good people to lose their jobs over things like AI. In that regard, I can understand going on strike. On the other hand, going on strike with AI being here to stay is going to give these companies motivation to have them replaced. Certain bad apples in the scene, along with localizers these days, make me less sympathetic.
I have no problem seeing ai replace western localization and VA. 😂😂
While I'm not keen on the politics that some VAs seem to bring with them to their work, I think they have a point regarding studios using their vocal likeness via AI. If their voices are being uses in tandem with AI, they should get some kind of compensation for it.
I just like to ignore Social Media and just treat VAs like normal people, regardless of beliefs on politics or religion.
I'm mixed on this because on one hand I don't want AI to takeover voice acting, but on the other I find it hard to feel that bad for them because the virtue signaling that some of them do. I know it's not all of them, but the one's that it is are loud.
A lot of voice actors in America tend to hate the projects they work on. And besides that, voice actors have always been just a handful of people voicing 100s of characters. If not Ai, the voice acting industry definitely needs new talent.
There's plenty of other regions in the world that speak the language natively and/or fluently that will be easier and cheaper to negotiate with who they can't control with their unions. I'm all for licensing and royalties, that's a given, no augment there, but they will eventually overstep and further encourage their own demise, some already are with Eastern games. These gatekeepers will help crash the market and it won't recover.
Sometimes unions can be shit, but let's not forget they are essential to deal with the corporations/elites. The problem is that so many union heads become corrupted.
At this point, if I were a worker, I wouldn’t want to be in a union.
Don't ever bring politics to work
Yeah, the last thing I wanna hear from anyone is their views on Politics, Religion etc.
Yeah at this point if anyone is OK with this then they deserve their job being lost to A.I.
I'm not ok with this, but honestly at this point the majority of English VAs barely give me anything to sympathize with them.
@@YarugumaSou I get it but this harms innocent ones
crazy time we're living in, where a voice actor who's likely beloved by their fans is being replaced by the industry without their consent, just so the industry can pocket more of the cash.
To those saying You don't need VAs remember; No voice actors = no Maxor videos
Maxor videos?
Putting my hatred towards wokeness aside, The AI stuff in general isn't good for industry if it's costing actual talent to be discarded from work. However we would've never been in this situation in the first place if merit based hiring was still a thing. I do believe there are companies who will still replace talented workers with Ai because corporate greed even if DEI was never a thing but I also believe there are companies who are forced to go along with DEI because the terrible economy right now is destroying them and they're trying to get as much money as possible in order to avoid bankruptcy. This ends up being a lose lose situation though since those DEI practices will just breed activist employees who want to destroy these companies anyway. Moral of the story is there's no stopping AI if it means these companies can save even a tiny bit of money.
From my experience with Elevenlabs, AI Voice Acting isn’t and possibly never will be at a point where it’ll fully replace human voice actors.
There are some good Meme and Comedy skits here on TH-cam that use well-made AI voice clones, but those require a lot of work to get right.
I can see AI Voice software replacing Background Character Voice Acting so that studios can focus on the voicing the main cast of characters (assuming a game has any Voice Acting that is), but other than that, AI will likely never replace human voice-over work.
Oh boy, them AIs!
voice actors is useless, A.I. gonna win and it don't pushes woke propaganda so it's already win-win situation
stealing shouldn't be a win, and you can easily makes an ai woke, in fact most of them are programmed to be woke.
At least I am a voice actor who doesn’t push propaganda.
@@ChristianFrates1997 Yea your kind now suddenly starts to come out.
Wait I thought the last Actors strike was for this! Didn't their Contract also apply to / include voice actors?
*Striking is the worst thing they can do right now, they're just giving developers more of a reason to replace them 😂 embrace AI and it will make you a better voice actor. try to compete with it and you can ring up my Reese's cups and Mucho Mango Arizona tea at Walmart* 🙌
It it Mugen like the badass fighting game or the badass samurai or both?
Fighting Game Engine. I use to be a Mugen focused channel.
@@MugenLord Hell yeah. Nothing beats Brazilian Goku
not only gaming and animte too . this one v tuber i sub too is on strike he cannot play his games sadly as for the strike
why not just use a fictional likeness. There is no need to model a character after a real person.
It's still trained on the real work of real peoples? That's fundamentally how it works.
@@astreakaito5625do you get this angry at google/youtube for selling all your data? & about Microsoft putting literal spyware baked into their OS? Do you get mad about Palantir storing data about every poop you've ever taken?
When you were a child & learned about art, visual or audio, your preferences were shaped in part to your experiences with various works of art. Some things you liked, things you didn't, blah blah blah, even things which inspired your art, is it still not "your art" (if it is not plagiarized, ie fair use or licensing) ?
I am against stealing and selling data, them not getting consent, and more. But I think if it's clearly different & not a clone, barely different clone, or a clone of a clone, then it could be legitimate. That's my perspective. If I missed an angle, let me know cause I'd love to consider it. ~
Personality I think is kinda of bad for the voice actors, not the activists, but I believe that just like in art AI will be used more like a tool in the process of creation. In the end corporations will always "corporate" let's see what happens.
Honestly I think AI can be a good or bad thing depends on the user on using it.
AI is nothing but a tool, and the problem with it is the way most people using that said tool.
As for AI replacing Voice Actors from what I've seen people on the internet saw that as cause and effect problem as people mostly hate VAs not for their performance but their attitude on the internet (Hating their own fanbase, and spewing political activism for example). Hence why those people would cheer when said VA would be replaced by AI or some other VAs that didn't do those stuff and just as good on Voice Acting.
To be fair I do not mind about Voice Actors speaking out about those stuff as long as they did a good job on Voice Acting, but there's a time and place to do so. And unfortunately for some people those VAs tend to do it way too much to the point of those people are getting sick of it.
Where do you post your 3D Ecchi stuff?
I could care less about most voice actors. Just like I do not care about most Hollyweird actors and actresses.
Pedowood
i made a petition its called fire capcom localization team
No one cares!
Good. They can stay struck. They are superfluous. Don't even need the likenesses. That was just a vanity project anyway (and usually uglified). Easier to make a completely new virtual person.
While I feel for the good people that just want to voice act, unfortunately progress is inevitable, I'm generally not in favor of needless regulations as most of the times it just benefits those in power, I'd be fine with a law that explicitly allows voice actors to patent their voice for life and charge a licensing fee or royalties depending on the agreement. As of now, my advice to voice actors especially new ones, don't be fooled this could be a great opportunity, mainly if you have or know of businesses you can trust as you could try to convince them to advertise their product(s) as Non-AI voice acting, or make your own AI pack and license it out, also don't support the strike as that would only "prove" to businesses you want to control them and push them further toward using AI. This could be a great opportunity to overthrow the current voice acting buréaucracy if y'all play your card right. This is just my opinion, but as impressive as AI voice is, it still doesn't sound quite human to me.
Karma
well you do not even need a Voice Actor at this point to create your voices.
they should do what hollweird does, with their trailers exactly the same style, the same `drama` kind of music remixes and styles that have no relevance to the time period of the film, and annoying cuts that are supposed to `leave us wanting more`. it`s totally cringe and anyone could do it. Just take one male and female voice and use it for everything. Lord knows western gaming is more or less ded and buried in social engineering narratives now anyway.
Unpopular opinion but I feel no pity for them, they threw us under the bus over politics and now except us to have their back when their position is threatened
That’s fair.
As an artist I'm also on strike, sort of. I just didn't share a single piece of art since last year. I'm essentially done with what I could call my artistic career.. Though I'm still drawing and improving my skills because it makes me happy and ai art will never be real, it's just glorified art theft. I have little sympathy for western voice actor but ai voices is also stealing their voice and body of work in order to function, so it's not legit, and I wouldn't accept any videogames that makes extensive use of ai voice acting anyway and I think the practice should be deemed illegal (it's already immoral)
Anime could suffer the most as Japan has a VA culture. However I'm not sure about DA Veilguard people as the developers have been preaching about DEI a lot.
I’m a voice actor and I refuse to let AI steal my voice. It’s identity theft.
Goodbye entitled voice actors, no one will miss you.