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Agreed, if their likeness is being used.
I don't know if "dead" is the right word but it will change for sure.
I despise every second SH is in it, the worst parts for me is when you are forced to play as him in the flashbacks, I rage speedrun all those parts and skip his conversations, and try to pretend he doesn't exist for most of my playthroughs. The game I'd rather be playing basically ends for me with his appearance, which is literally only the prologue.
It can be played at any time after finishing the voodoo boys missions and before the point of no return. But if you don't want to re-play the whole game again I'd recommend loading the point of no return as the DLC adds new ending options, which you can only experience if you actually finished the rest of the game.
This is about as seamless as it gets when a game has a permanent ending. It's not like you can play the citadel DLC in ME3 after finishing the game either.
I don't get it, this is not concerning unlicensed use, like you said, but actual licensed use. Yes technology got better, but if you gave an unrestricted license in 2022 thinking it will always remain that quality, then that's still on you as a VA.
There is a NO option.
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Publishers don’t need a license they train an AI and do it. They go OK in these genres these 3 VA’s are super popular so what if we train an AI to sound like a blend of them highlighting the aspects that make each of them popular and use that.
Art is not a real job. It only has value if other people find your art valuable, unlike a real job where you are always creating value. And your likeness is not art, you were born with it. That you should get paid for having born with the right mixture of genes is preposterous.
But in the example you cited they had a license to do it. The problem the VAs had is that they didn't think the tech would become indistinguishable from real VA work in a few years, and now want to backpedal on the deals they made.
They can use it to train AI, but they can't sell any product with the VA's name attached to it if they don't have permission. Anyone can make a deepfake voice that sounds like someone, but they can't use the name of that person unless they have their permission.
This is new technology, you can't put it back into the bottle. If the union can block use of AI clones, the companies will simply create hybrid voices that don't sound like any particular real person. Exactly because it is cheaper. There is no going back to how things were before the tech emerged.
Yes one example had licensed ones and others didn’t. Some publishers are trying to navigate things in a friendly manner and license actual actors.
I'm intrigued, where do you think the irony is here? Creating value means taking resources and producing something or providing a service that is more valuable than the initial investment was. The purpose of art is not producing value, it is expressing artistry. And if you are specifically producing something on order for money, then it stops being art and is just manufacturing. Sure there can be stages of how much artistic freedom you have. The less artistic freedom the more it becomes a job. But art in its purest form is not a job.
And nothing of value was lost.
I am a Union Officer, and we get the same daily rate of pay as our members from the strike fund when we are on a nationwide strike. My normal pay is also based on the same daily rate of pay that my membership receives.
Spotify has started using it for auto translation, so it keeps the original voice but can translate from English to French, Spanish, etc they started rolling it out for Podcasts and such.