Google search engine is much worse than it used to be and seems to be getting worse.

udm=14 doesn’t seem to improve Google search results by a significant margin.

Bing and DuckDuckGo seem to perform better than Google at present.

Google itself is failing. I’m not going to speculate why.

uBlacklist is my current extension for removing spam results.

This is like Satan saying “We’re not going to be able to deal with mass corruption. Just burn everything. That’s the solution.”

That’s an interesting idea… Satan…

Soyjak: Pizza toppings are gross! I just eat the materials raw!

Chad: Eat what you want, how you want.

Edit: I just realized, this isn’t political enough for some people (non-Italians). Imagine Pizza is a metaphor for cannibalism. There, it’s now political.

No, they can make money without stealing. They just choose to steal and lie about it either way. It’s the worst kind of justification.

The investors are predominantly made up of the Rationalist Society. It doesn’t matter whether or not AI “makes money”. It matters that the development is steered as quickly as possible towards an end product of producing as much propaganda as possible.

The bottom line barely even matters in the bigger picture. If you’re paying someone to make propaganda, and the best way to do that is to steal from the masses, then they’ll do it regardless of whether or not the business model is “profitable” or not.

The lines drawn for AI are drawn by people who want to use it for misinformation and control. The justifications make it seem like the lines were drawn around a monetary system. No, that’s wrong.

Who cares about profitability when people are paying you under the table to run a mass crime ring.

No, I know what the article is. I’m talking about the conversation of AI voice work in general as tangential to the topic.

Maybe don’t be so presumptive or act like an indecent asshole to people just because they aren’t parroting the same shit you are?

I have sympathy for voice actors, the situation is obviously complex for them. But, and I’ve said this numerous times to numerous people, AI voice work is probably going to end up being cheaper and much more voluminous. That’s exactly what developers need for procedurally generated games where they want to see “all” of the characters voiced.

I’m not saying anyone should try to use AI to voice main characters in standard video games. However, this isn’t about standard video games.

The fact is, mass voice work in procedurally generated games is something that can only ever be accomplished with AI.

The whole Rogue-like genre is constantly evolving. And yeah, a lot of the development is bad. If you’re in that scene, you probably know what I’m talking about - lots of dead end projects, lots of pointless feature sets, lots of pointless busywork being disguised as game mechanics, slot machine nonsense, etc, ad nauseam. Nonetheless, AI generated voice work is obviously going to be used there at some point.

I have a hard time believing that a lot of people are going to lose their jobs to AI voice work. The voice work generated through AI is not comparable to what people can do. Again, that isn’t the issue. The economy is in the dumps, and AI is the only way to afford voice work for games that are designed around procedurally generated voice work.

You can be upset at losing your job. But, throwing a wrench at a wrench because you think the wrench is screwing you, is just stupid. Corporations might screw you. But, the technology itself is just technology.

Failing company? Invest into a propaganda program. People will definitely see the value in these shit brands going forward.

It’s really hard for some people to believe that this would ever be the truth. At the very minimum, this is like 50% of the truth, and the other 50% is worse.