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2025 update:
‘can’t pay artists to train our ai models, it’d put us out of business!’
I wish they would. AI VA could be so great if people were just paid properly.
Imagine- You have the English Voice track for Arnie in Terminator- but you need a Chinese version.
Old worlds- You either have a bad local VA that sucks but is at least ‘acting’ OR you have people reading the script over the English version, you get the inflections from English, but the verbiage from local… script readers.
Imagine if instead of using AI to cheap out, you got those local VA’s to do a version of the voices (and paid them!) then ran it through an NN so that the input was the local VA and the output is a combination of that and Arnold’s voice (and all parties are paid appropriately, this isn’t suppose to be a cheap out process) such that you could hear ‘arnie’ in all langauges - That would be great.
But instead we just get cheating artists out of pay for a worse quality product.
They can’t even make money stealing other people’s work. Actually paying for it is out of the question. Right now they’re still living in the free money portion of a bubble. The crash is going to hurt a lot.
It won’t hurt them though, not when they get that bailout money from public funds so that only we have to suffer the consequences of their actions.
You’ve already shown a flaw, which is that English inflections do not match other languages. “I will go” in English is not “Je irai” in French but rather some more like “moi, j’irai.” The sound of the voice also wouldn’t make any sense because different dubs will change to fit local stereotypes. In the states they will have someone sound like a redneck but in Germany they might lean into a Bavarian accent for the same effect.
With the low level of understanding demonstrated in your comment, plus the high level of confidence in your solution, you’re showing exactly why it’s a bad idea. Just pay voice actors and pay them enough that they will actually be of a certain quality instead of bitching that the dime-store VA people aren’t giving you top-tier performances.
Take the AI and throw it straight in the garbage. We don’t need it and we don’t fucking want it. All it does is cost more money to produce a product that only an ignorant, over-confident corpo thinks is any good.
Can’t tax the Billionaires, they would run away
Can’t implement healthcare for all, it would cost too much
Can’t allow people to unionize, it would hurt business
Can’t regulate banks, the free market knows best
Can’t fix tax loopholes, the rich will just find new ones
…
I could go on. For the every common sense solution there is a lie from the right, why it would not work. Always the same disproven lies, repeated like a mantra.
In workers rights and beyond.
Can’t stop exploiting animals, it’d be bad for the economy
I’m a little more upset that we can’t stop exploiting people.
Even if you believe the life of a human is thousand times more important than the life of a single animal, the scale at which we exploit animals would still be immensely worse. And also this is literally just whataboutism
The post is about labor, you made it about animal welfare. The whataboutism is coming from inside the house.
I was adding to it, not challenging it’s claims.
“Can’t stop training algorithms on IP we don’t own, would put us out of busuness.”
*Goes out of business anyways despite even extra help on top."
It is the ultimate ponzi scheme
To be fair, unless you’ve got a fair system to begin with, raising the minimum wage won’t increase purchasing power anyway. Prices just scale up.
That’s why you go one step further and tie minimum wage to inflation/GDP/cost of living. Hardly done anywhere, but I’d wish that happens.
Which study says that?
