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WE LIVE IN A HELL WORLD

Snippets from the article by Karissa Bell:

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands of performers, has struck a deal with an AI voice acting platform aimed at making it easier for actors to license their voice for use in video games. ...

the agreements cover the creation of so-called “digital voice replicas” and how they can be used by game studios and other companies. The deal has provisions for minimum rates, safe storage and transparency requirements, as well as “limitations on the amount of time that a performance replica can be employed without further payment and consent.”

Notably, the agreement does not cover whether actors’ replicas can be used to train large language models (LLMs), though Replica Studios CEO Shreyas Nivas said the company was interested in pursuing such an arrangement. “We have been talking to so many of the large AAA studios about this use case,” Nivas said. He added that LLMs are “out-of-scope of this agreement” but “they will hopefully [be] things that we will continue to work on and partner on.”

...Even so, some well-known voice actors were immediately skeptical of the news, as the BBC reports. In a press release, SAG-AFTRA said the agreement had been approved by "affected members of the union’s voiceover performer community." But on X, voice actors said they had not been given advance notice. "How has this agreement passed without notice or vote," wrote Veronica Taylor, who voiced Ash in Pokémon. "Encouraging/allowing AI replacement is a slippery slope downward." Roger Clark, who voiced Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, also suggested he was not notified about the deal. "If I can pay for permission to have an AI rendering of an ‘A-list’ voice actor’s performance for a fraction of their rate I have next to no incentive to employ 90% of the lesser known ‘working’ actors that make up the majority of the industry," Clark wrote.

SAG-AFTRA’s deal with Replica only covers a sliver of the game industry. Separately, the union is also negotiating with several of the major game studios after authorizing a strike last fall. “I certainly hope that the video game companies will take this as an inspiration to help us move forward in that negotiation,” Crabtree said.

And here are some various reactions I've found about things people in/adjacent to this can do

And in OTHER AI games news, Valve is updating it's TOS to allow AI generated content on steam so long as devs promise they have the rights to use it, which you can read more about on Aftermath in this article by Luke Plunkett

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Are You Getting Queerbaited Or Are You Being Misled By Your Internet Echo Chamber

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When Supernatural ended and the fandom decidedly sucked, a bunch of other fandoms decided to adopt Castiel as one of their own beloved characters.

The Hannibal community was no exception. Art by @zillabean:

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Bros having a winter stroll

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I was finally able to get out of that awful artblock, so, here's a Cas

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Agreed. I hated how they’d build up an arc about CasCas and then abandon it. Like his failing grace. What was wrong? What caused this? Was this making him slowly die? Nope. It was just there.

How I hated the writing on this show. 😡

You ever just sit and think about how Castiel was never fully explored as a character and was constantly held back and punished by the narrative? And wish he'd just been allowed to spread his wings, to grow, to talk and say meaningful things more than a bare few times, wish he'd just been allowed to exist in the story, and just!!!!!!

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loki from marvel is unfuckable!

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some little doodles because i love this quote so much (quote from misha collins)

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Awwww. Good little Floof!

5.10 Abandon All Hope…

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quick doodle

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ruler of everything - tally hall

pls rb i spent entirely too long on this 🙏

click for quality

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𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔴 𝔪𝔢 𝔰𝔬𝔪𝔢 ℜ𝔢𝔰𝔭𝔢𝔠𝔱

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he is in a meadow

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Of course, there isn’t one heaven. Each soul generates its own paradise. I favored the eternal Tuesday afternoon of an autistic man who drowned in a bathtub in 1953.

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Will icon commission for revanchist_fawn (twitter)! :D

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literally what the fuck!? - Castiel, angel of the Lord