"We need humanity in art": Game actors speak out against Microsoft’s AI partnership

Voice actors question Microsoft’s claim that it’s empowering developers.

Microsoft recently announced a new partnership with InWorld AI to create a suite of what it calls “AI game dialogue and narrative tools.” Predictably, many of the humans currently responsible for bringing that dialogue to life aren’t thrilled.

...Microsoft insists its tools are made to empower developers, linking to its own AI policies that include safeguards against using AI voices to impersonate real people and acknowledging the racial biases that can be built into AI. However, for the voice actors whose work the partnership could outsource to AI, issues with the technology run much deeper.

“I believe generative AI is inherently harmful by nature — especially when unregulated,” voice actor Abbey Veffer tells Inverse. “The whole intended purpose of AI is to replace manual, human-powered creation.” READ MORE FROM INVERSE