Voice Actor Jennifer Hale on Video Game Strike and AI Fears: ‘You’re Using Technology to Take Away Our Ability to Feed Our Kids’

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1. Find a new ability

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3. I’m torn on this.

   I love actors and stories. I don’t want either of them to go away.

   At the same time, I’m pretty sure that buggy whip makers said the same thing, once upon a time.

4. Take some eggs out of the basket

5. As long as they aren’t stealing your voice, tough shit.

6. eh, i’m not for AI replacements but thats just not a good argument

7. Art and artistry must be protected. There will always be a market for handmade or human-made art, including voice acting. VAs (aside from huge celebs) already make less than their onscreen counterparts per project, so it goes without saying that the film industry has been leaning heavily on CGI films to deflate and dilute the income potential of actors and VAs alike for some time. Sure, the VAs in Avatar and its sequel may have made a good coin, but what of those playing digital characters in films that did not break records? The ultimate goal of the movie studios and the Steven Mnuchin types who fund their projects is to write a cynical prompt into an AI screenwriting program, then feed that into a generative AI to “film” that movie and then have it all voiced by AI “actors” that they do not need to pay. Within a year or two, they might actually pull off this dark stunt, and if it does not flop, well, the AI slop train will only chug along harder to replace all media with this nonsense. This is the time to vote with your eyes, ears, and attention. Reject these AI generated sideshows now, before they become the main attraction.

8. There’s no way ai would be able to encapsulate Tiny Tina like Ashley Burch. Humans bring something to the table that ai never will.

9. You can always go full Amish?

10. We live in a society that values profit over art. As long as it is passable and sells, it is all fine.

11. Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice they are willing to make.

12. We’ve been using technology to displace people from jobs literally since the dawn of technology. It’s basically the whole reason we’re make technology. None of the artists felt this way about robots replacing workers on assembly lines.