Solid Snake and Commander Shepard stars discuss threat of AI on voice acting
AI is a hot topic of discussion across the video game industry right now. Several developers have flirted with this new technology, with the likes of Ubisoft announcing its Ghostwriter AI tool earlier this year. Meanwhile, the High on Life team used AI to create video game voice dialogue.
Last week, I had the opportunity to chat with voice actors Jennifer Hale and David Hayter about their upcoming release, Synapse, and during this conversation, the topic of AI came up.
«I have been staying on top of it,» Hale assured me when I asked about the actors' personal take on the matter. «And the number one thing I want to say to everybody out there is: Stay out of fear. Stay in action.»
Hale runs a support site for actors, and said AI is something she is «dealing with head on».
«If I were to take your face, for example, and use it to promote my product without your permission, you'd be suing the pants off me and rightly so. The same is true for our voice,» she stated.
«It's like anything else with voice acting, it gets overlooked for a minute, and everybody thinks they have the right to it, but they don't. And I believe that the legal system will absolutely bear that out. It's just going to take time.»
Hale wants to ensure that the voice acting community remains proactive in its stance against the use of AI. «There's an organisation called NAVA… they've developed a contract writer that anyone can print out off their website and give to anyone hiring them,» she shared, while appreciating it can take a certain amount of courage to present a contract such as that and get it signed.
«But it's just like any other job,» she stressed. «I remember when I first started working in this industry, you know, I was in a non union market, I
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