• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I mean…of all the things to hate on AI for, this isn’t one. You don’t WANT an immitation voice. You want James Earl Jones. But he’s dead. AI is the best outcome possible.

    • JohnnyFlapHoleSeed@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      No, I want it voiced by a trained actor.

      I thought Terrance Howard was great in the first iron man, I was really bummed to find out they dropped him, then I saw the second one and you know what? Don cheadle knocked it out of the park.

      I thought the daily show would be shit without Craig Kilbourn, and then bam, we get Jon Stewart. Pure gold.

      If we had just used AI to knock off the originals we never would have seen other actors shine in the role

    • zaphodb2002@sh.itjust.works
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      15 days ago

      I disagree, I want working actors to get paid. I will always take Maurice LaMarche over an AI Orson Welles. Just get that YouTube Grocery Vader guy like they did for Force Unleashed, he’s great.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      15 days ago

      Yeah, but Epic broke the contract. Union has to sue or it’s not worth anything. Simple as.

      That said, the union could have gotten something else out of this if Epic did the lawful thing. Even the fact that Epic acknowledged they need to follow the contract would have been valuable.

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      15 days ago

      I do want an imitation voice, because I want new people. I don’t want to hear the voices of the dead just because companies don’t want to pony up. I’m ready for the next JEJ but that’ll never happen if the industry dies because companies have just been reusing AI voices instead of hiring anyone.

      AI should be used for tedious tasks not creative ones.