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Video Game Cyberpunk 2077 Uses AI To Replace Deceased Voice Actor (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you prefer they recast and re-record over his voice so the family didn’t get any royalties and his name is less well-known? It’s not hard to make regulations that you need consent from next of kin and have to pay to use the “likeness” of their voice like you do with appearance. Refusing to use new technology because someone might misuse it before regulations are in place are what luddites do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd prefer they simply cast someone else who can do the character's voice, without redubbing the original game. It won't sound as good, but it's better than legitimizing this practice. Soon enough voice actors will barely exist because some set of actors will have licensed their voice for use in this technology. Who would pay full price for a real actor when they can pay a fraction of the price for a company to generate the audio for them? AI models are already close to passing the audio equivalent of the Turing test. It's hard to tell that the voice narrating a tiktok video is AI unless you've heard the same voice elsewhere or the uploader made a typo.

And yeah, I am a Luddite. Idunno if you know what they were actually about, but I'm not ashamed to call myself one.