I have sympathy for voice actors, the situation is obviously complex for them. But, and I've said this numerous times to numerous people, AI voice work is probably going to end up being cheaper and much more voluminous. That's exactly what developers need for procedurally generated games where they want to see "all" of the characters voiced.

I'm not saying anyone should try to use AI to voice main characters in standard video games. However, this isn't about standard video games.

The fact is, mass voice work in procedurally generated games is something that can only ever be accomplished with AI.

The whole Rogue-like genre is constantly evolving. And yeah, a lot of the development is bad. If you're in that scene, you probably know what I'm talking about - lots of dead end projects, lots of pointless feature sets, lots of pointless busywork being disguised as game mechanics, slot machine nonsense, etc, ad nauseam. Nonetheless, AI generated voice work is obviously going to be used there at some point.

I have a hard time believing that a lot of people are going to lose their jobs to AI voice work. The voice work generated through AI is not comparable to what people can do. Again, that isn't the issue. The economy is in the dumps, and AI is the only way to afford voice work for games that are designed around procedurally generated voice work.

You can be upset at losing your job. But, throwing a wrench at a wrench because you think the wrench is screwing you, is just stupid. Corporations might screw you. But, the technology itself is just technology.

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[+] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world -6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's good. A game can't hold an unlimited amount of NPC interactions, and just get repetitive. Ai isn't taking your job if it's not possible for you to give me endless dialogue.

[–] KeenFlame@feddit.nu 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Idk why you are downvoted. It's sad, tragic even, but your comment is interesting and I wanna know how you think about generated content. Do you want infinite immersion?

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I just feel that you can't say a machine is replacing you, when it's doing something you're not capable of, which is to provide infinite, responsive responses and dialogue. I'm not saying these voice actors aren't needed or should be screwed over. Why not dialogue a character, pay the actor, and ai can generate the infinite responses. Pay the actor a premium for this.

Ai I can also see being great for NPC and enemy reactions.

I remember playing Manhunt back in the day and being intrigued by the ability to use my mic to distract enemies, and some games that let you respond by mic, and I hoped that would go somewhere but it can't, not without Ai.

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