Friday, April 19, 2024
‘For now, they still need you’: Video game creators scramble to unionize as AI threat looms
au.news.yahoo.com: With his black beanie hat and expressive facial muscles, ‘Bloom’ appears much like any other modern video game character – right down to his emotional backstory.
"Yes, I’ve lost many," says Bloom when asked what the resistance struggle had cost him. "My son, my friends, my home. But every loss only fuels my determination to keep going."
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I understand unions a little more than I did at the beginning of the year, and thats very helpful and educational. I think that working to protect these workers rights is incredibly important. I have already stated my opinion on AI in art multiple times but I will absolutely say it again. I think AI in art is for the most part a bad idea, there are very few ways to use it ethically and it's incredibly difficult to use it in a reasonable way. I think AI is such an issue, especially in the theater world, but transferring it to the game design Community makes lots of sense. I think that there could be so many issues in the game design Community specifically with AI, just because pulling from databases, which is what AI does, is something that can seriously harm a game designer's career, and compromise their design.
I think that if you went back just 10 or so years ago and told game designers that AI would progress this far, they’d be excited – and it is exciting, but at the same time, just like any other industry, AI comes with huge ethical and legal questions. I didn’t know that voice actors and other performers in the video game industry could fall under SAG-AFTRA. I hope they can get the protections they deserve by joining, though. Crabtree-Ireland’s deepfake is downright terrifying. AI is so powerful but it’s imperative that it’s used ethically. It’s crazy to me that already 12% of voice actors have lost jobs to AI, and even crazier that some people had their voice recreated without consent. It makes me wonder if anything I’ve heard or watched recently was AI without my knowledge. In general, I think the video game industry should unionize following recent scandals at some companies and to protect them from future harm.
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