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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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i am EVIL!!! no I don't want to join your found family please go away,,

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the best ship in all of ya fantasy and so few people even know about it… the only couple i’ve ever made a playlist for…

in my feelings about Han and Raisa and it’s not even 8am

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366 Pages - Day 3

Writing Streak: 3

Today's Words: 262

Today's Pages: 1

Total Words: 2451

Total Pages: 9

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366 Pages - Day 2

Writing Streak: 2

Today's Words: 1270

Today's Pages: 4.5

Total Words: 2189

Total Pages: 8

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366 Pages - Day 1

Writing Streak: 1 Today's Words: 919 Today's Pages: 3.5

Total Words: 919 Total Pages: 3.5

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366 Pages - Prompt 1/1/24

Trees know the best stories.

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366 Pages Intro

Hi fellow writers of tumblr!

this sideblog may be new but I'm definitely not new to tumblr! I wanted a space dedicated solely to my writing, so here we are. please don't mistake me for a twitter immigrant, lol.

anyways, i've been a frequent writer since I was a kid, but I rarely finish anything so no publications or anything. I'm 24 (so minors interact at your discretion) and write primarily fantasy with some other stuff mixed in.

i'm calling my new year's resolution this year "366 Pages" because my goal is to build a regular writing habit by writing 1 page every day for a year. And at the end, I'll have 366 pages worth of words on paper (because leap year, ya know). Feel free to join in with your own goals / rules as you see fit. I'm doing this super informally, with no consequences for missing a day or two or several. The main point is to keep coming back and trying again until it becomes a regular habit.

My rules / guidelines for this challenge:

Try to write one page every day. This can be handwritten, but I'll be doing it in a word doc for tracking purposes.

The writing does not have to be part of a single cohesive story.

The writing can be any creative writing that is not journalistic / memoir (because I already journal daily). This includes poetry, fanfiction, re-writing, etc.

Any creative writing counts as a "check-off" for that day, even if it doesn't meet the 1-page goal. What matters is that I wrote that day.

If I miss a day, I don't have to make it up. I just need to do my best to meet the goal the next day. Habit building > perfection.

Keep track of writing "streak" (think like how duolingo keeps track of how many days in a row you used the app). For me, this is really motivating and is how I started my daily journaling habit.

Writing over the goal is of course allowed and encouraged, but not required.

Have fun! Writing is supposed to be enjoyable, so I don't want the pressure to ruin the hobby experience.

Be kind to yourself when you mess up, because beating yourself up over a missed day will make you less likely to come back the next day.