GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice
GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bulls**t' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice
Grand Theft Auto voice actor Ned Luke, who played Michael De Santa in GTA 5, has called out a "f**king bulls**t" AI chatbot which uses his voice.
GTA 5 Actor Ned Luke Calls Out 'Bullst' AI Chatbot That Uses His Voice::Grand Theft Auto voice actor Ned Luke, who played Michael De Santa in GTA 5, has called out a "fking bulls**t" AI chatbot which uses his voice.
To be clear, I am against AI for anything that doesn’t address inequality.
But for shits and giggles, isn’t this guy's voice just the Great Value brand version of Ray Liotta?
These days it’s arguably better then Ray Liotta’s.
Oof. lol
Why is it that when a human impersonator mimics a voice, it's just fine. But when a computer does it, it becomes a huge ethical issue?
I'm not saying they're not wrong here, I just find it interesting that using an organic method of recreation (an impersonator) is considered fine, but an electronic method (the "AI" in this case) is considered ethically wrong.
It's because it is about the voice. A good voice actor can produce many voices. Yes you can find someone else but it almost always is not identical. And since you have to hire someone anyway and they are good, what even make them pretend to be someone else? They might have better voices.
With computers you can essentially steal someone's voice and the way they act and use that for cheap.
Those companies cry about piracy, that someone downloaded something and that made them not purchase the movie, music or game that many wouldn't purchase anyway.
This actually is the real piracy. They can steal the likeness of those people and make profit without needing to hire them ever again.
Maybe a few different things, one requires physical effort and skill the other, while impressive tech wise, is relatively easy to use and replicate.
The other reason is probably because it’s easy to abuse as we’ve already seen with other news about “fans of x celebrity get scammed by deepfake”.
And another even if it’s not a scam using their voice for financial gain is really easy. While the one human who could imitate the guy could do this it was 1 versus mostly everyone.
Well, scams are unethical regardless of method used. It would equally unethical if done by a human. So that's not the difference.
And Impersonators are already profiting off of someone else, since they're specifically hired to mimic someone.
The other points you mention all boil down to being ethically wrong because it's easy, which doesn't really make any sense IMO. why is a thing ethically wrong just because it's easy, if it wasn't ethically wrong when it was hard?
Would you consider a person using a voice-changer to mimic ethically wrong?
I see ads all the time now using various famous actors voices for spamming scammer crap. If someone didn't know better they would absolutely think these actors were shilling the stuff.
Hiring a sound-alike isn't taking a job out of the economy for one. The original voice is able to accept the job at the pay rate the sound-alike took usually.
Not to mention impersonators are usually doing the voice according to parody/fair-use
Nobody wants to end people using AI to make Johnny Cash sing "Barbie Girl", but using it to replace Keanu Reeves in John Wick 8 for instance would be across the line. Recasting the role is one thing, but replacing the human altogether is another.
Hiring a sound-alike isn't taking a job out of the economy for one. The original voice is able to accept the job at the pay rate the sound-alike took usually.
That is a Luddite approach to the subject I would say. Technology has always displaced jobs and rendered some skills useless. For a long time it has just only occurred to unskilled and/or manual labour, most people have no issue with that. Now we're starting to see skilled and creative labour getting hit by it, but why should that be any different?
This has sent me down such a rabbit-hole.
I thought Ray Liotta did the voice for Michael. This whole time.
Like how the Trevor actor's face is used for Trevor, I assumed they used a (de-aged) Ray Liotta's likeness/MoCap.
That's so strange. I'm surprised Ray didn't have anything to say about it (or maybe he did and it's forgotten now).
Why Ray Liotta?
I mean, Michael sort of looks like him, I guess? But doesn't look or sound THAT much like him.
Of course, he played the main character in Vice City, is that why you were thinking of him...?
But no, Ned did the mocap, they did the models based after him, rhe voice...
Here I thought tools like lyrebird were going to be great for game mods to add basic voice acting to those fan made expansions