In 2023, AIs have managed to grow stronger in interesting and worrying ways. From image creation to video creation and everything that involves talking with different programs to optimize daily work has become more and more common, something that has already landed in the video game industry. The debate is served, and It looks like we will start to see many cases of workers complaining against the use of this technology.
In an interview with IGN, the voice actor for Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher, Doug Cockle, spoke about using AI to create voices for secondary characters and make the work of developers easier. According to Cockle, the use of artificial intelligence is almost imminent, This is an essential practice thanks to your support for video game development.
AI is inevitable and developers will use it. “We’re not 100 percent sure what that means exactly,” Cockle said. “They already do it in different ways, filling in the background, NPC voices and things like that, which is unfortunate because those voices were all human beings at one point, and all the voices are modeled on human beings. So they did it. “They take someone’s voice, put it into their database, digitize it and use it to say things that the individual never said. “There’s something unethical about it and that’s why there’s a lot of debate.”
“They are taking away our voices.” The future of voice acting in video games
The reality is that using AI helps developers create secondary voices and makes their work easier. Machines are already invading our jobs, everyone fears being confronted with technological innovation and being supplanted by the computer, which will happen to some extent to voice actors. This will not be a definitive measure, but this will affect the secondary roles whose work has been summarized in a few lines.
That’s because I think with voice actors, especially voice actors who play lead roles, it’s a reality that people tear our voices away. It happens. This has happened to me several times. I can’t even control it because I would spend all my time looking at these stupid things.
Part of the problem Clockle exposes is that the use of AI is not exclusive to a computer, as they need real voices as a basis for creating new dialogue. The above implies that the developers could “steal” the actors’ voices.
If they’re going to do this, if this is going to happen, then we need to create a way for actors to control how their voice is used.
For now, This complaint appears to be the start of a voice actor movement to assert their voice and avoid abuse from any company that acquires the rights of an actor and “steals” their voice. It sounds crazy, but it’s something that’s currently unregulated and has all the red tape to become a real problem.
