Jennifer Hale Says AI Is Coming for All of Us | Push Square
Jennifer Hale is one of the most renowned voice actors in games, lending her talents to series like Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate, and Metal Gear Solid. She's also, predictably, not a huge fan of the threat artificial intelligence poses to the industry and made some choice comments on the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strikes to that effect.
Speaking to Variety (thanks, IGN), AI is again causing consternation, with actors doing everything in their power to halt its existential threat. Generative AI pulls from the performances of real actors to create something new and usually worse, not that that is likely to deter unscrupulous companies from chasing the bottom dollar. Hale puts things in even stronger terms:
«The truth is, AI is just a tool like a hammer. If I take my hammer, I could build you a house. I can also take that same hammer and I can smash your skin and destroy who you are. If you use something that originated in our body or our voices, can we please get paid? Because now you’re using technology to take away our ability to feed our kids.»
Not a struck game according to SAG-AFTRA
USA strike begins tomorrow
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Khayl Adam is Push Square's roving Australian correspondent, a reporter tasked with scouring the internet for the richest, most succulent PlayStation stories. With five years of experience as a freelance journalist and mercenary wordsmith, RPGs are his first great love, but strategy and tactics games are a close second, genres in which he is only too happy to specialize.
No! No way! Ai is a threat.
I seem to remember from my history lessons that in the 15th century the printing press was going to destroy jobs for the entire industry of scribes, when in reality it was what paved the way for a revolution,
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