Technology

38168 readers

296 users here now

A nice place to discuss rumors, happenings, innovations, and challenges in the technology sphere. We also welcome discussions on the intersections of technology and society. If it’s technological news or discussion of technology, it probably belongs here.

Remember the overriding ethos on Beehaw: Be(e) Nice. Each user you encounter here is a person, and should be treated with kindness (even if they’re wrong, or use a Linux distro you don’t like). Personal attacks will not be tolerated.

Subcommunities on Beehaw:

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Voice actors speak out on AI in video games (www.youtube.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

38 comments fedilink hide all child comments

A high-profile dispute between Scarlett Johansson and the maker of ChatGPT has brought the subject of AI voices to the fore, but many others in the entertainment industry are affected too. Jennifer Hale and Linsay Rousseau say fair treatment for voice actors is important. (May 23, 2024)

from The Canadian Press

This commentary is from labor disputes last year, I wanted to post it here so that people would remember whose jobs they are trying to steal by pushing fake ai VO. We don't have to push corpo propaganda here. This is our space, err, [Chris Remington, alyaza [they/she], TheRtRevKaiser, gyrfalcon, rs5th, coldredlight, Leigh, TheRtRevKaiser]'s space. I don't think any of them are corporations, but maybe I am wrong?

Pushing AI propaganda is a bad move for infinite reasons, here are four:

it's usually an attack on workers
the industry steals directly from artists
these companies are massive polluters/ emitters
it makes you look like a rube

*edit 1 According to the laws of debate, one of you must reveal whichever podcast has you parroting comparisons of VO artists to horse workers *edit 2 Horse husbandry is also a major craft and fine art that ought not be mocked, whether or not it is useful to capitalists

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

not one AI compagny has ever made a single dime,

You're confusing AI Training with AI implementation.

AI Training is the big cost.

AI implementation is where the money is made, and lots is being made.

it would need to bring real value

Are you fucking kidding me? Are you that obtuse to the millions of subscriptions people are dishing out?

Are you not aware of the AI vision systems being used in the past 5 years making fucking $$$$$$$$ ?

All of us gamers out there... all that $$$ into hardware to have DLSS is just 'no real value' ??

Why are you commenting on a topic you clearly have no idea how or where its being used?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

You’re confusing AI Training with AI implementation.

True, the training is what needs the most power and water, for the implementation it highly depends on what kind of AI we are talking about and how many people use it per day, stable diffusion for instance is also costly when used. But in the end companies still need to regularly train their AI to stay relevant so the issue remains.

AI implementation is where the money is made, and lots is being made.

"Money is made" yes, "lots" no absolutly not, the money AI companies made are in the small millions per year, while their expenses are in the billions, for instance Anthropic made an impressive 900 mill last year for a ridiculus 5 billions in cost, ChatGPT is in the 6 billions and its only an advanced chatbot.

Are you that obtuse to the millions of subscriptions people are dishing out

Actually all that I said take these subscriptions into acount, the amount of money it generates is simply not enough compared to the cost of AI.

Are you not aware of the AI vision systems being used in the past 5 years making fucking $$$$$$$$ ? All of us gamers out there… all that $$$ into hardware to have DLSS is just ‘no real value’ ?? Why are you commenting on a topic you clearly have no idea how or where its being used?

The way you are mentioning techs that are nothing alike even though it has AI in the name tells me you know far less than I do.