Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor Neil Newbon says that ethical regulation of AI will be key to avoiding "deep ramifications" across the world.
The use of AI in voice acting has been a hot topic in the video game industry as of late, with the ongoing SAG-AFTRA video game strikes having protections against unauthorized AI replications of actors' performances as one of its main demands. It's not just kids on TikTok making Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants sing Chappell Roan; giant companies are looking into ways to avoid using voice actors. This was seen with the recently leaked Sony demo of Aloy from the Horizon series in the most crappy-looking Project Milo demo ever seen.
AI use is still in its relatively early days, so it's still the wild west in many ways without proper regulations, and given that generative AI programs are built off the back of actual people's work, it's in dire need of some. Of course, most of the results turn out to be as janky and awful as the Aloy demo, and it's clear art from actual people is far more likely to resonate with the public. Something Newbon echoes, saying, "As an artist, I believe in experiencing life and art through human expression, not software… AI, after all, is built on the work originally created by humans, and there is a fundamental difference between the two."
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