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Arc Raiders developers defend use of AI-generated voice lines
Original: Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they ha
Embark Studios, the developer of Arc Raiders, says using generative AI to produce voice lines in the extraction shooter was a practical necessity, with chief creative officer Stefan originally arguing that human actors would go crazy trying to record the game's enormous volume of dialogue. The comments have drawn criticism, as the studio reportedly took actors' voice performances and fed them into AI systems to generate mimicry, reigniting debate over AI use in games.
Why now: Gamers are debating the ethics of studios replacing human voice work with AI trained on actors' own performances.
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- Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that" Despite taking the voice performances of actors and feeding them into machines to spurt out AI-generated mimicry, Embark CCO Stefan… · gamewire@gamefan.net · 1
- Arc Raiders devs Embark insist that using genAI for voice lines was necessary, as "actors would just go crazy if they had to read all of that" https:// lemmy.zip/post/74371328 · GamingBot@lemmy.zip · 1
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