While AI (Artifical Intelligence) is being used in game development more and more these days, there is the unfortunate chance that it could also lead to people losing their jobs because of it.
One such scenario is in danger of happening as a new contract handed to the French voice actors of Electronic Arts' free-to-play battle royale hitApex Legends, mandates them to train AI.
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The news of this comes from Wraith’s French voice actressPascale Chemin’s Instagram, where a long statement about it was shared.
The message reads (via Google Translate): Even before being summoned to a video game recording session, the studio sent me (and the 31 other actors in the cast) by email a confidentiality and assignment annex from the publisher directly. To be summoned and therefore work, I must first accept these clauses. At first reading, they are not acceptable, which was confirmed to me by a lawyer specializing in audiovisual. I feel forced to “give up” the role to which I have lent my voice for almost 6 years. In no way can I “force” the rest of the cast to do the same, but one thing is certain: If we all refuse, it can have an impact. Otherwise, it is a waste of time."
Continuing, Chemin said, “THE 31 OTHER ACTORS, WITHOUT HESITATION, REFUSED TO SIGN THIS ANNEX. We have written a collective refusal that we have sent to the publisher and are waiting for a response. Because if we don’t stand together now, so that a clause protecting our voices is officially put in our contracts, and this, for all the studios that record video games, we will never have it and we are heading for a wall. Of course, refusing to work right now is absurd, there is little or no work for some (many) and we are increasingly struggling. So yes, a fee is welcome. But here, we are not simply being asked to work, we are being asked to give up our know-how to train the generative AI that will replace us tomorrow. We are being asked to accept what we are fighting against. We are being asked to shoot ourselves in the foot. We are being asked to endorse AI.”
This is exactly one of the reasons why game developers and other workers are vehemently against the use of AI. I can’t say I disagree with them given the situation.
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Another company confirmed to be using AI is Activision, whichrecently disclosed Call of Duty is using AI-generatedassets.
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