SAG-AFTRA Inks Agreement With Replica Studios For AI Digital Voice Replication Use In Video Games
SAG-AFTRA Inks Agreement With Replica Studios For AI Digital Voice Replication Use In Video Games
Amid a lengthy contract negotiation with the video game industry, SAG-AFTRA has inked a deal with Replica Studios regarding the use of AI digital voice replicas in video games. The guild’s Na…
limitations on the amount of time that a performance replica can be employed without further payment, and consent.
So games will be removed from shelves later on because the AI voice passed its expiry date and the developers didnt want to or couldnt afford to renew it? The same exact problem we have seen lately with why certain games are no longer available due to music licenses?
Really seems like a recipe for disaster tbh, for voice actors in the present who won't be paid as much, and then the games themselves once the replica license expires
It's OK, the AI will allow companies to churn out low effort content for live service games, and the license only has to last until the game ceases to make money and the servers get shut down.
Well, there's two ways you could interpret that:
- As you say, 'shelf life', how long they can sell the game with their voice in it
- Or, 'voice time', as in, contracts are negotiated in total duration of voice lines. Exceeding that number requires renegotiation.
I suspect it's the latter as that is more similar to how voice work is already done, to my understanding.
That would be ridiculous, and make generated lines even less useful than simple recordings. Presumably they mean new lines cannot be generated, past a certain date. That'd let the studio continue doing the character without needing the actor... in that game, for a while.
Why would I want a fictional character to sound like a specific real person?
Or, framing the question differently: what actor plays Dave The Diver onscreen? Because the answer is what this technology will do for audio.