Board 8 > Bayonetta voice actress Hellena Taylor calls for a boycott of Bayonetta 3

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But it isnt standard (and from what I can tell not even an occasional thing that happens for big name VAs).

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1582439093677723648

the plot thickens

Give it another 10 or 20 years and the tech could be good enough to replace humans entirely.

I feel like ai will only be used for the minor VA parts (or to replicate iconic roles where you cant get the original VA like Darth Vader) and it's not a threat to the craft as a whole but who knows.

This is hilariously naive.

we don't just have AI generated art everywhere

sure but there's a difference between "i am going to this museum to look at paintings made by real people and take them in as pieces of art" and "i'm consuming a game (or something else) that has a million art assets in it"

like i don't think an art collector will want to frame a piece of AI art in their own

but i do think someone might not care if, say, they play a visual novel on steam where all the location backgrounds were made by an AI.

Like having all your previously unvoiced minor NPCs voiced via AI to save time seems like the endgame for it not putting great VA like Jennifer Hale out of business

For the same reason people still paint and we don't just have AI generated art everywhere.

like i don't think an art collector will want to frame a piece of AI art in their own

In the future both visual and audio parts of acting will be purely computer generated.

I saw this video a few weeks ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Mcuh38wyM

I'm not saying this isn't going to happen on at least some level because capitalism, but this is a wildly dystopian notion that would completely eliminate multiple fields of art.

"look AI can't draw hands okay"

Do you know people who are into art?

Same thing will happen to traditional on screen actors once deepfakes are perfected. In the future both visual and audio parts of acting will be purely computer generated.

Prolific VA people will want the genuine article if they can afford it.

It's about prestige. In terms of dev costs that's a drop in the bucket. It's also not really taking a lot of development time because it can be done in parallel with the programming.

Like does a Jennifer Hale AI voicing Bayonetta actually sound like what you'd expect Bayonetta to sound like, or does it sound like Jennifer Hale voicing Samus with different dialogue swapped in. Artist interpretation is so important for memorable characters.

But in this case you would just generate more of Hellena's Bayonetta directly

Eh I don't think so. Acting is the arts. For the same reason people still paint and we don't just have AI generated art everywhere. There is a certain thing that AI won't be able to replicate, or that purists won't want AI to replicate.

Also like VA aren't super highly paid-- it's not like its a cost cutting measure. Licensing the AI is probably gonna be pricey in its own right.

I don't want Hellena's Bayonetta. I want what Jennifer Hale thinks Bayonetta should sound like which is different than Jennifer Hale trying to impersonate Hellena Taylor.

To start with, you can dub procedurally generated text, which is impossible right now with human VAs.

I am at least interested in Hale's Bayonetta and don't think it's something an AI can accurately approximate because we don't know what that actually means. Because we've never seen it. Would the voice be close to one of Hale's existing performances? Maybe? But how does the AI choose which one. Is it going to be Jennifer Hale doing knock off Hellena Taylor? Probably not.

Like you can absolutely use an AI to replicate an existing performance for different dialogue. It's a solution to a VA walking out of an established franchise, but the initial interpretation of a memorable character is entirely up to the VA and not something you can make an AI do in a satisfying way.