Artists around the world are joining forces to protect their jobs, and their souls, from the ramifications of AI that sounds just like them.

Artists around the world are joining forces to protect their jobs, and their souls, from the ramifications of AI that sounds just like them.

  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.ukEnglish
    17·
    11 months ago

    It’ll happen in games first… nobody cares if ‘background NPC #15’ is generated by AI, and mostly they voice a few sentences at a time.

    Suddenly, voices aren’t special… Voice actors have to have something else, like movie or book fame (Audible books seem to be mostly voiced by the authors, and I can’t see that going away). But only a few % really have that… I bet there are thousands of voice actors we wouldn’t even recognise the names of.

    • Paradox@lemdro.idEnglish
      4·
      11 months ago

      Honestly, for games, it’s got even more potential. Imagine if the NPCs in games actually said your characters name, not just “dragonborn” or whatever

      Imo the smart thing for VAs to do would be get in front of it. License their voices to models, and charge royalties for said models