cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/40224994

I just found out that Embark used genAI to replace recalling it’s voice actors. And I am devastated. It was my GOTY and now I’m boycotting it. To the point that I decided to be vocal about it.

I don’t want any AI (not talking about machine learning for the way the Arcs move, I’m talking about the voice actors being replaced) in the work of art that I think are the video games I play.

To game developers: Stop using AI in your video games!

Je viens de découvrir que Embark a utilisé de l’IA générative pour remplacer ses acteurs. Et franchement je suis tellement déçu. C’était clairement mon GOTY, et maintenant je me retrouve à boycotter tout ça, au point de carrément en faire des posts pour toucher le plus de monde possible.

Je ne veux aucune IA (et attention, je ne parle pas du machine learning utilisé pour les déplacements des Arcs) dans les oeuvres d’art que je consomme.

Aux développeurs: Arrêtez d’utiliser de l’IA dans les jeux vidéos !

  • Chef6652@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Marketing this as “text-to-speech” is oversimplyfying at best, dishonest at worst imho. People need to work, we can’t blame the voice actors. But in the end they still are working against themselves/their peers.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Marketing this as “text-to-speech” is oversimplyfying at best, dishonest at worst imho.

      it is literally a text-to-speech system. saying otherwise is just ignorant.

      • Chef6652@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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        1 day ago

        TTS has existed for decades, machine learning for less than 20 years, genAI as we know it for less than 5.

        Those 3 things are not the same thing. Yes the genAI they used can be included as a TTS because it is one. But only in function.

        You are playing on words here. Most people know TTS as a crappy old thing, here this is something way more advanced.

        Even if it was the same thing to begin with. I wouldn’t be like a company using a simple TTS capable of recreating the voice of a voice actor I like without paying them the same as if the company hired them.

        • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
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          1 day ago

          you don’t have to like it. just don’t misrepresent what’s going on because you don’t have a good argument against it. it’s not your opinion that’s getting all your comments downvoted, it’s the lying and moralizing.