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Video Game Actors Protest Rampant A.I. Use at Game Studios

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0:00 how about um you guys ever seen a documentary of David Holmes excuse the F out of me what you excuse the out the dog inventor David documentary okay thank you do [Music] doent so here's an article that Anthony will like and subie probably yes video game performers are protesting right now oh about unregulated AI use at Warner Brothers Studios mhm sag is about to go on strike for this right what's unregulated about it so uh obviously all these all these performers are nervous about their jobs being taken over by all this AI stuff voice over work yeah and they're more than 300 of them are on protest right now so for example like let's say you're a character in a video game that you did

0:50 voice over for are they scared that now for part two 3 4 five because they have ai they can just kind of SPO the whole thing and they don't even need absolutely and or how about even worse than that right they use you for color they use you as like a side character or some ████ what if you could just use an AI instead now you're you're done zo so like this this body that right now has power and maybe they won't soon they're trying to do what they can to stick up for themselves this is this is somewhat similar to the the writers strike and stuff like that cuz at least in the Clause of the AI stuff but yeah I maybe have an unpopular opinion about this uh I think that if you're you don't have such an iconic element to like your voice or anything because you came from something you know when you like see AI or something like if Snoop Dogg is like on a video game character

1:40 you know that's Snoop Dog it's like when you have that much clout recognizability and stuff like that you probably wouldn't have signed the contract to like completely devil all your likeness and everything like that but I think that if you're doing voice acting because maybe not every knows who you are but that's just a talent you have cuz you sound kind of good but you're not like Infamous for your voice then you might have signed a contract that relinquishes the you know your actual character likeness and blah blah blah it's like the industry is going to move in that direction I think we're not going to stop it maybe you could slow it down with a strike here and there seems like inevitable yeah so like unless you have the clout to like change your contract with these Mega companies and stuff I I ultimately I think you're right about this and so far as this is a new technology that is just going to dominate the industry yeah it's going to do we can't we can slow it down but we

2:31 can't stop it so unless you have clout to change the contract like you you're not going to have power to fight it forever anyway so so instead of fighting It Go build your clout cuz it's also the same thing as kind of like the uh when everything was practical effects right and then CG came in and they're like what about all the production that I'm going to build so well if you don't adapt they're going to start building artificial things on green screen yeah clation is Obsolete and then it's like you could argue that's like no but like we could do this but it's like well visually this is cheaper better and safer it's like you're not going to fight that like for a long time or even like let's say we built the perfect Joe Ai and he's like I have to jack off and all stuff we're like that's really good I don't know if we I don't know if we need him what stopped in the studio from just saying all right we don't need to use you guys we just create AI everything

3:21 well and so now more in line with what Anthony's saying you have now original characters nobody's heard before so now you can just make them with AI and the the audience's original experience with with it is the AI so then what's the difference it's not Harrison Ford's voice anytime that there's like a major transition in Industry like right now like AI isn't the norm it's like a new a new Norm that might develop of course I totally understand and inside with people fighting the good fight of course course cuz they built the industry to get I get it but how long can this fight go but the market will decide right like if if the market decides like okay these games suck even more cuz I like the actors and you could tell it's AI it's not as good then that might hurt maybe game sales where they go all right well maybe we won't do that but it seems like the AI is so ████ good it's too good

4:11 like like when Drake was doing that ████ with Kendrick it's like he brought Tupac and Snoop Dog's voice to his verse and it's like it sounds like it when they do when they make SpongeBob sing like you know a Kanye West song you're like what the ████ it's like the trucking industry once PE like it's like okay we know we can get from point A to point B no worries AI only and no breaks no lunches no human error you know being overworked no liability right not as much liability it's going to be there's going to be like how do you even make an argument against it other than saying we need to hire humans to do this job I get it I'm ████ sucks for the humans in that era right you move ████ you move the needle of human existence and progression one deciel you know one millimeter over in the timeline of infinite time it's like it doesn't matter we're a blip in the universe you

5:03 know what I mean so and it's always like that it's like tape to CD CD to mp3 mp3 to ████ streaming or whatever it's always going to be like that yeah so this looks like an Unstoppable Force ████ fight the good fight to slow it down as long as possible so you have working jobs your money I'm into that always it's tough what do you think Joe what are the jobs that are under threat through AI so voiceover actors anybody involved in um obviously just something you can easily replicate with visuals and audio so like it could be it could be a like the Alexa ████ how that's taking over everything or like for example I I like from time to time do like um various without any specifications like game emotes or ingame movement for like different video games right back in the day what is that is that like motion capture stuff yeah

5:54 that's the thing back in the day we had we used to do motion captur so I've gone into Studios and stuff like that you put on the thing with all the ball balls and blah blah blah right and then one day I started going in and doing volumetric capture where you didn't have to put on any balls you just had to make sure you wore like non-contrast and clothes and they record you in 360 Digital Imaging so that they have movement of any type of sort at higher levels it's volumetric it's not just like uh reading data points on balls and then drawing the rest what you have exactly that right yeah wow and now straight up I submit choreography for certain things I never even have to go in the studio they have animators that just they're just like hey films from the front and the side of the back and then they just take the data from the video and then they recreate it and then put different costumes and looks and skins skins or whatever the freak they call it you know what I mean and it's like we're just so

6:44 you're kind of a scab you're basically ████ over your whole industry no it's just as long as long as I get my paper in that moment cuz I can't stop it so so this whole process you still have a job does it get to a point where you won't have one so think about like this imagine imagine the thousands MERS motion whatever we give data there going to be a Tipping Point where you can recreate anything with any flavor and any Nuance with existing data using AI to corroborate all information to recreate something new that feels culturally stylistic you know what I mean you can innovate on the spot and you can you could AI the form to be like make this different from anything else but feel like this but that's what copyright law is about to be ████ insane more than it is right now because how did they arrive at that right how

7:35 did they build that algorithm what did they build that data set offlow maybe it's old K's videos probably was cuz that's when they were tight so so then right you you build off so you're saying we were tired how' you sneak that in dude what you said we were tired you liked us asting people old people who are dying they're irrelevant now someone liked us in his but point being how did you get the information right how did you get the information it's pretty funny how did you get the information right that's the that's the thing so where did that come from it's no different by the way than like oh you you like um ripping off of somebody's speech like yeah cuz that's what AI is right so what do you think is going to happen with that I think people be sued selectively here and there and depending on who the ████ is backing

8:25 them they'll probably win a lot but even then even then that's still American lawsuit culture you Su if you have the means to pay for a lawsuit and then they'll settle if they have the the value to settle and move forward like nothing will stop the machine anything will be maybe a roadblock and slow down but it will move but that's why you like what you always said it's like you got to constantly innovate otherwise you get ████ left on the and that's that's what they're fighting for right this game thing like they just they want it to stop completely well I mean right now the quality sucks but I can see it changing like right now there's a lot of uh a lot of AI channels are flooding YouTube it's so like ████ annoying cuz you think you're going to watch an actual person and you click it and it's just a slideshow or videos from AI The Voice with the same voice that's like they mispronounce the right words you go

9:17 and it's about like a philosopher in his life or like whatever but then part of it is like do you even think that's true a lot of the stuff cuz sometimes the AI stuff gets it wrong but it doesn't matter cuz it's all about the algo so like they're just trying to ride views and get a certain amount of money but they're like carbon copies of each other and they're flooding YouTube cuz you could crank out this content right so like let's say you want to I don't know let's say you want to do a video on like Carl Young in Psychology or something then all of these ████ like AI faceless documentary style channels pop up you think it's a legit Channel and then you click it and you're like that's that robotic voice again it's like there's a lot of that flooding it and I'm like ████ what up guys thank you for watching us for so long if you like what we do please support our patreon Joe tell them what we have to offer so every week you get two videos one never

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10:57 this guy is just literally just he's just like draining the ████ you know uh magazine empty on content whatever he can find for the darkest parts of the but nowadays like that's what it seems like it's it and it seems like that's also ruining I guess content in a lot of ways like maybe in my opinion I don't know how you guys feel about it that's how I feel but it's like you watch some of these videos and you're like dude this isn't for whatever reason because you could feel its AI do you just not value it as much well I just I like Joe i r it off quicker yeah but then if it's a really cool Focus but if it's some that actually you could tell is a real person I don't know if you can tell nowadays but like I can't tell cuz I watch Ben Shapiro I don't know if he's real there's one AI it's not even a channel I can't watch a whole YouTube video but it's a um Instagram page it's called like project or or inventor Theory or some ████ but basically they

11:48 come up with their own it's kind of fan ficky of ancient alien ████ so they'll have ai draw up these crazy ass like characters from Egypt and then they'll tell you like the stories that happened in the Book of Enoch or whatever and then there's there's a series and I think that's pretty cool but yeah yeah we I mean we live in a industry and a time frame especially because everything especially technologically is exponential and growth right like it's it's adapt or die period yeah I remember when even in like just the the dancing it was like to even like teach choreography online like online tutorials that was so taboo and then Co happen and it's like if you didn't jump on that ████ you were going to die anybody that is like a traditionalist or purist they're usually nerds with no friends so just watch out because

12:40 artistically your craft would have to be so refined for you to be valued still over the long time yeah and most of them are film students that are so pretentious and they never made anything never did anything never actually made one single thing but they judge everything else they're so snobby and then they never get anywhere they never work on Films or anything like that but every movie they ever watch except for the grand ████ student fil they have in their brain that they can never afford or do or execute on so like it doesn't matter cuz this whole thing reminds me of like you know when the whole digital versus analog thing was happening we'll be like oh digital cameras will never be as good as film maybe that's true but who's ████ using film and developing it anymore ex Christopher Nolan and that's it and he's using Tano it is it's like yeah but where does it go it's like five dudes straight up it's like him scores

13:31 that's it that's they're old as ████ check this out though my friend I can't say a name he said that the industry the stun industry or the movie industry could slowly like us using us as humans in general could die out in 5 to 10 years I could definitely see what's his Xbox gamer Xbox gamer tyag and you know what like again I I fight the good fight in this time for the stunt people who like brought the industry there but at the same time if you're a studio and you can be like hey guaranteed no human's going to get hurt doing this crazy idea why the ████ wouldn't you move in that direction if it looked just as good and was cheaper why would the stunt person be down no no that's what I'm saying I I know why the stunt person wants their job I'm saying like why wouldn't you take the human part out of it if you can build as good product and not risk injury well look at hey look at Deadpool Wolverine like the whole time I was

14:21 playing a game in my head of like is this CGI this all looks like CGI I don't even know if these are any like real act when he's in his mask it's all CGI to me like ████ I thought and I just was like okay this is this is dunzo how about um you guys ever seen a documentary of David Holmes excuse the ████ out of me excuse the ████ out of he said the dog inventor David documentary okay thank you dog inv that's tight he invented the dog uh you know you know he's a St he's Harry Potter stum man for oh oh it's called Uh the boy who lived the boy who lived oh yeah talking about dude yeah the boy who lived the dog inventor but you know what I'm saying like that stunt you know you go you go 10 years in clean and it just takes that one day yeah which is exactly precedence for why anybody should use Ai and again I

15:12 ████ I hate but it's also precedence for why they should sue yes yes you ever seen that buster those like Buster Keaton videos where he like snut stuff bro you see that and to us it's like that is the most ████ irresponsible thing I've ever seen but I wonder if the big Studio are just going to keep shrinking cuz think about it right like it's been like that yeah they are they're Lo and then there's so much content that's flooded and there's so many like you could be a mogul and just run your ship with like two people now look there's like like Matt Damon talked about on hot ones which is hilarious um the DVD was really a huge driver for like you know Studios having more money like liquid so that they could actually do stuff so like that's ultimately why they can't take shots on like some you know like what we were

16:03 doing like they can't like just take things and just oh maybe we'll see how this works out because right they have to do more of like an algorithmic model of like it will work because we'll get this many eyeballs because this name's attached and that will lead to this conclusion and you can't really blame them because there's no model for them to just make money out of thin air they're really switching to like a YouTube ████ algorithm all going to be small teams now which is insane to think about because I remember a decade ago They're laughing at you in the room because you're like I have a YouTube channel they like oh really dude that's so crazy cuz you look at Netflix like they put so much into like the shots they choose for each movie it's it's like the ████ thumbnails like but for and they change the thumbnails yeah all the time so crazy all the time yeah it's kind of just reminded me of like ready player one that one that one whole movie I feel like eventually our life will be

16:54 in our house and we will be inside a virtual world the metal world but is the world gets hotter right as they say cuz it will and it will you guys are in a hot hot place exactly so now more people are more incentivized to stay inside already and then what if you make inside even more tantalizing than it is already because birth rates are going down people are less likely to even go date now because dudes and chicks are just more afraid of all that ████ cuz of all and the porn is just too good too hey I'm 100% porn in a suck machine oh dude I've never leav that I don't have a suck machine yet if you link them if you link them I'll leave my wife tomorrow dude VR like like you know virtual world ████ you give me haptic feedback on my dick I will also brother I'm getting my cian in the mail right now D on the way can I

17:45 borrow it nah dude you got to come over and check it out you can't have it you can't have it no I'll show I'll show you guys at my house dud I'll be asking my brothers in your machine it's kind of expensive huh I don't know what the you might be bummed you might be bumed sharing a machine with me dude cuz I might wear it out like oh man Steve stretched mine out yeah you might got to get a warranty on yours brother I thought the cibian was the girl one that that the girl sits on no no no it's for both it's for both you could it's a vibr a vibrating thumb is a vibrating thumb okay you can't stop it it's going to give you pleasure no matter what what made you think that dude probably misogyny yeah dude misogyny Joe supposed to be very openminded sexually and you're over here ████ yuck cuz I started with suck machine and he said sibian and I was

18:35 like yeah and I was like wait isn't that the thing girls ride yeah whatever dude whatever fls your boat 's yeah come on as long as you riding you riding baby that's what subie says sub's doing 180 on them things you know hey Trump TR hey why do you voting for Kama what who's that subie [Laughter] subie did you bring I knew was coming today did you bring me one get all right I knew was coming I knew was coming that wasn't even a good reval I don't even know if I saw unink what it's right there dude right there hey you know what though you know what's crazy he's aged a lot from that picture I think you think he escaped death I feel like bro I feel

19:25 like he's stressed out I think it's just lighting I think it's just lighting that ████ with me too man the up down in here the fluorescent in here is ████ garbage did you see that you get vertigo in here huh you said what you get like vertigo in here a little bit sometimes my eyes ████ hurt here dude this is office lighting it's not fair Vegas when we move this operation to Vegas and we will ████ you state of California we're going to have better lighting can we have the diamond lights instead love the Octagon lights anything anything else yeah these lights hurt the ████ out of my eyes I'm glad it's not just me hey but in Hawaii we just needed Alana Beach Park oh ████ yeah we'll put some tables up yeah that's it and what are you guys going to do mute the world like no you just have a little mic those are that would be tight to do an outdoor dud I would love to do outdoor on Hawaii I wonder if we could hear each other though no Hey Joe like um you know you'd

20:15 probably probably suck off a sheale and it's like the whole time just a concept no no no I wouldn't and check it out if there's a crowd we ask the crowd more content we're like hey would you guys suck a Sheil the ████ and like I probably get caught doing it would you suck a she

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