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fixmycode , 5 months ago to technology in SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES

well, it does say that it was approved by the VA union, so maybe it’s something good?

if it’s royalty based and they get paid everytime they have someone use their voice model to say something, by all means, pay them.

delmain , 5 months ago to technology in SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES

There’s… no details at all other than “it’s happening”?

Why even announce this with no details, Knowing it’s gonna piss people off? What were sag-aftra and Replica hoping for here?

alyaza OP , 5 months ago

There’s… no details at all other than “it’s happening”?

well, this is a press release strictly speaking (and unions tend to delay public release of specific details of such deals anyways–although, if the allegations are correct i have no idea why they’d do this in this case).

KingThrillgore , 5 months ago to technology in SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES

This seems like another example of the AFTRA merger impacting performers

FaceDeer , 5 months ago to technology in SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES

As I've been expecting all along, the competition is not going to be between humans and AIs. It'll be between humans that use AIs and those that don't, and the ones that don't will be at a big disadvantage. SAG-AFTRA saw the writing on the wall and wanted to keep its monopoly on what voices are "allowed."

Even_Adder , 5 months ago to technology in SAG-AFTRA and Replica Studios Introduce Groundbreaking AI Voice Agreement at CES

Is there a limit to how many jobs a person can take?

jarfil , 5 months ago

In a world where every job can be performed by an AI? Yes… and that limit is 0.

But in the meantime, it’s getting closer to ∞, so rejoice! (while the pay tends to 1/∞).

Titan , 9 months ago to gaming in SAG-AFTRA Members Approve Video Game Strike Authorization Vote With 98.32% Yes Vote

Good, the video game industry is also exploitative.

KevinDeRodeTovenaar , 9 months ago

In capitalism every industry is exploitative.

scrubbles , 9 months ago to gaming in SAG-AFTRA Members Approve Video Game Strike Authorization Vote With 98.32% Yes Vote

Good, after seeing that Skyrim mod that added a chatgpt follower I immediately saw corpo execs salivating over all the free content they’d get.

I think most gamers love the idea of NPCs that you can have active conversations with. However I think we should fully compensate the voice actors who are lending their voice to the trained model. Something like that can easily be exploited by companies to underpay workers.

UrLogicFails OP , 9 months ago to gaming in SAG-AFTRA Members Approve Video Game Strike Authorization Vote With 98.32% Yes Vote

I’m glad to see SAG is standing up to the video game industry, which is notorious for mistreating its workers.

Hopefully, after seeing the damage from the WGA/ SAG Hollywood strike, the video game studios will take this threat seriously and negotiate in good faith enough to not warrant another strike.

I also hope that SAG standing up for themselves may inspire other game development employees to unionize and stand up for themselves as well.