Stellaris director insists “ethical use of AI is very important to us” after generating voices in latest DLC

I mean, they supposedly used an algorithm that payed the voice actors for contributions to the training set and gives them royalties when it is used.

Maybe, there's a lot of games that have computer made voices for robots and stuff before the AI boom.

Is using tech to speech programs unethical?

They still needed a human to process the files, and another human to provide the voice model.

I mean, the voice files are specifically for a robot, they could have not had a human voice involved at all and eliminated one human from the job pipeline regardless by using FM synthesis or something, which has been around since before the 1990s.

Sure. But that does not make it unethical.

Read the post, the human still got the job and was paid for it, he was just saved the hassle of going back to read new lines every time they needed a new line while still getting paid.

And?

Yeah but this is the case for pretty much all technology. Coding getting easier and quicker through new tech = fewer coders necessary. Motion capture = fewer animators, etc etc.

Which is why the robot voice actors should unionize. It's a crime that human voice actors have been stealing their jobs for so long!

This comment implies that no humans were involved with operating the AI. Seems doubtful.

It's one thing for out of touch executives who blindly replace entire departments with "AI" while fundamentally misunderstanding the role of the department being replaced and the capability of AI, tanking the quality of the product--that's real self harm for everyone involved; it's another thing to be advancing the creative processes with more advanced tools and automation, something that we've been doing for centuries without much fuss.

The creative part of voice acting isn't just in moving one's lips. The creative part of voice acting is just as much, if not more, in feeling and direction--in deciding if a sound sample produces a certain desired emotion, and if that emotion is valuable to the overall experience or not. This is not the territory of generative AI. This is the territory AGI, which does not yet exist. Producing the sound with your lips is just a small part of that. There's still a human involved in producing the work of art (and if not, then yeah, we are back at that first category, of leadership ignorant of the creative process, and we should bemoan a crappy product lead by executives who have no clue how to retain talent).

I probably would have given it to Microsoft Sam