AI Is Coming for Voice Actors. Artists Everywhere Should Take Note

Re:AI Is Coming for Voice Actors. Artists Everywhere Should ... by blagie on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:36AM (#35466204)

I'm not quite sure of the impact of AI on any particular industry. Generative AI reduces costs and increases efficiency and means that I use a lot more art than I used to.

I can develop better software systems faster too. Does this mean fewer jobs, or more / better systems get built, where the bank teller has something as smooth as an Apple consumer app?

It all depends on a bunch of economics curves I have no idea the shape of.

One concern I have is capital costs: Up to now, a lot of these industries were a pathway to socioeconomic mobility. If jobs require a $1M farm of GPUs, they will become a lot more exclusive, and move value from labor to capital.

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Re:AI Is Coming for Voice Actors. Artists Everywhere Should ... by JohnFen on Thursday April 06, 2023 @11:34AM (#35469796)

> If jobs require a $1M farm of GPUs, they will become a lot more exclusive, and move value from labor to capital.

Isn't hat move going to happen regardless of how much or little the hardware costs?

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Re:AI Is Coming for Voice Actors. Artists Everywhere Should ... by blagie on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:04PM (#35471271)

Up to this point, anyone anywhere in the world could buy a $100 notebook computer (~1/3 years' income for much of the world), take a few courses in Python or JavaScript, and find work for ~$10k.

Although this impacted a small minority, it gave nearly 100% of the people in the world a pathway to socioeconomic mobility. Although only a tiny portion of people will do that, this has a disproportionate impact; many of these pathways expand exponentially once started for a whole slew of reasons.

In other words, moving from mainframes to cheap PCs was democratizing.

This is potentially a major reversion.

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