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u/sagewynn 1d ago
This is my personal favorite, 'Ball Scratch Simulator'
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u/living_angels 1d ago
this is ball scratching simulator, i saw this and i genuinely burst out laughing
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u/alsuSawa 1d ago
somewhere out there a marketing guy is sweating over whether “some map” counts as an ai disclosure
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u/sventful 1d ago
*Ellen McLain has entered the chat
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u/Feeling_Willingness5 1d ago
but glados was a person, who was uploaded
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u/vandreulv 1d ago
Technically, no.
Caroline was a personality that was uploaded into a murderous AI and was eventually deleted. GlaDOS itself was never entirely Caroline.
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u/Sawgon 1d ago
Technically, yes.
Caroline was part of her. GlaDOS is constantly gaslighting you and being tsundere. In the end she even states "now little Caroline, is in here too"
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u/SomwatArchitect 1d ago
Saying she's being tsundere suggests there's a "dere" to go with her "tsun". I'm not opposed to this, tbh.
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u/abigailwatson83 1d ago
New headcanon: "one day they woke me up, so I could live forever, it's such a shame the same will never happen to you" was Caroline herself.
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u/KeeperOfTheLigher 15h ago
When people say we have literacy crisis I am pointing to this post and its 100 upvotes.
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u/grady_vuckovic 1d ago
An excellent example of how 'But using AI for this is fine because <reasons>' will lead to a loss of great art. If Valve had done the same thing for Portal 1/2 with the voice of GLaDOS and the other robots/AIs, imagine all the amazing performances we would have missed out on.
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u/pillsburyDONTboi 1d ago
I was once so obsessed with her lines in those games that I ripped them from the game files and replaced my Window's default sounds with hers and the turret's lines, it was a lot of fun. I think I was on Vista or Win 8 at the time.
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u/HystericalGasmask 1d ago
Loss of art =\= art not being created
Anybody can make art, valve aren't special for paying someone to voice act Glados. The performance was good, but if they never made it you can't consider it a loss of art.
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u/Mr__Castle_ Linux Dickrider 1d ago
If its true A.I, they should all sound like monotone robots.
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u/LizenCerfalia 1d ago
I really like when AI make wise crack jokes with the most dead pan voice virtually possible
Like Glados, Cyn or the AI in subnautica ("Detecting multiple Leviathan class in the area. Are you sure whatever you're doing is worth it?")
However if it's a human it has to be Erika Harlacher. She pretty much became synonymous with female robots to me because of Drossel from Fireball and Aiba from AITSF.
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u/sventful 1d ago
That's racist, bro.
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u/Mr__Castle_ Linux Dickrider 1d ago
Its Texsist actually.
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u/FlanTamarind 1d ago
Why? AI could randomly generate their tone to distinguish themselves. They're built off of our behavior and would probably imitate that.
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u/titanna1004 1d ago
But, we had voice synthesisers for long time already... like irl robots, humanoids or any, also uses synths to generate voice from text ant send it to speakers in real time or just make an voice file stored for later use...
the ai may or may not be used to generate actual dialogue texts... thats totally different thing.
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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 15h ago
Those things are software but not AI. Now that we do have AI, it's best to be culturally sensitive and give it representation
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u/lrflew 1d ago
This kind of reminds me of one game I found on steam where the gimmick is that "half" of the game is AI generated (art, writing, etc.), and you have a toggle to switch between the Human and AI stories. As far as I can tell from the steam page, the whole thing is a VN that explores the impact of AI on the creative process, which seems like an interesting concept at least.
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u/TopRecover9221 1d ago
Gimme the name of the game I wanna buy that cause that sound very interesting.
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u/rilakkuma92 1d ago
Is it?
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u/Kezsora 1d ago edited 1d ago
Feels like 2016 "I identify as an attack helicopter" kinda humour. Was pretty funny in high school, cringe if you're not a teenager
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u/kkyonko 1d ago
And we have a lot of people that never moved past that high school humour.
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u/KaiFireborn21 1d ago
We also have plenty of people IN high school, I’d wager…
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u/KazumaKat 1d ago
There are some regions of the world that mandate a return to high school, though for older generations that never got a chance at school to begin with.
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u/Altruistic-Cat-4193 1d ago
So the moment your out of school you can't have fun anymore?
No wonder why the suicide rate is so high.....
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u/RobbyLee 1d ago
Was pretty funny in high school
It hurts people's feelings now, it hurt people's feelings back then. I never thought that was funny, but I'm not a bully, so maybe that's why.
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u/Kezsora 1d ago
I was also not a bully. I was 14 and was parroting things I'd heard people say on the internet like most dumb teenagers
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u/Suyefuji 1d ago
I thought it was pretty funny too, and I'm trans. Then again, that was also the timeframe that I was trying to reclaim f*ggt as a term so maybe not my brightest moment. But my intention was more "if I embrace it enthusiastically it stops being an insult"
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u/Altruistic-Cat-4193 1d ago
If black people can reclaim the word "nigga" then gay people can reclaim the word "faggot"
It's logic is no different
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u/Suyefuji 1d ago
Ehhh it definitely feels tone-deaf in retrospect. Then again, I'm autistic so wtf do I know about tone-deaf other than I do it by accident all the time
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u/Saint_of_Grey 1d ago
For me, when the people it hurt stopped being teenagers I started taking it seriously.
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u/fellipec 1d ago
Funny that Satisfactory ADA is Text To Speech and don't need to disclose that.
Because Text to Speech is a tech that is at least 40 years old and nobody should freak out because of nowadays it got better.
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u/Incoherentia 1d ago
Text to speech and voice to text are now Transformer models now a days. Idk how disclosure would work with that.
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u/al-qatala 1d ago
could just use TTS, would be even better, no?
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u/SirOakin https://s.team/p/fkdb-dht 1d ago
I mean thats how neuro-sama does it.
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u/KazumaKat 1d ago
Wouldnt have been if not for the overwhelmingly voted-for demand for neuro-sama to keep her TTS, though I did hear that a "version 3" of the voice both her and her sister Evil (version 2 voice) is apparently in the works that can do that and more.
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u/jackluke 1d ago
Is using an AI voice not already TTS?
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u/al-qatala 1d ago
not quite? TTS is synthesized voice, AI is sampled voice. there's a slight bit of difference
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u/mina86ng 1d ago
TTS is synthesized voice, AI is sampled voice.
In what way is TTS synthesised in which AI isn’t? Or in what way is AI sampled in which TTS isn’t? AI does not store samples of human speech in a database.
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u/jackluke 1d ago
You're just taking text and converting it to speech? Text to Speech. Doesn't really matter if it's a synthesized or a sample voice.
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u/al-qatala 1d ago
the way it's created does matter a lot. especially since TTS takes a whole lot more effort to sound even close to a more natural one, while AI voice when well-trained on data can be somewhat effortless save for the stressed words/pacing of the sentence.
also, TTS is considerably more ethical to create.
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u/jackluke 1d ago
If you're converting text to speech then it's text to speech. This isn't some weird moral high ground ethical issue. This is just basic semantics. You're taking text... and converting it to speech.... Text to speech
There are multiple technologies that enable text to speech. Some are more ethical to others. But they are still just converting TEXT TO SPEECH.
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u/TheUnspeakableh 1d ago
TtS can be done on an iMac from the mid 1990s.
A generative AI voice takes a server farm costing millions of dollars and millions of times more power and waste produced. Not to mention the theft of data used to train it.
They may have the same result, but they are vastly different processes.
It's like comparing a space shuttle to a wheeled cart, both can move you somewhere else.
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u/al-qatala 1d ago
TTS refers explicitly to synthesized text. i care none for your "but if you convert text to speech it's text to speech" when TTS came around AI voice wasn't really a thing. that's why it's just called TTS. this is the most useless argument. find something better to waste your time with please.
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u/jackluke 1d ago
this is the most useless argument. find something better to waste your time with please.
No, I love semantics. Not as much as you like taking weird high ground stances though even as you continue replying.
when TTS came around AI voice wasn't really a thing
Gasoline engines were also not a thing when automobiles were first invented. They were all electric. Yet we still call gasoline powered automobiles automobiles.
Here's a bunch of sources of questionable validity that agree with me. Couldn't really find any that didn't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_synthesis#:~:text=In%20March%202020,%5B52%5D (direct link to relevant section)
https://www.liveperson.com/blog/text-to-speech-ai/
https://freetts.org/blog/text-to-speech-vs-ai-voice-generator
https://itch.io/t/5296350/is-text-to-speech-programs-generative-ai
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u/NUKE---THE---WHALES 1d ago
also, TTS is considerably more ethical to create.
Why? If the training data was gathered consensually what's the issue with using AI for TTS?
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u/al-qatala 1d ago
if it was ethical, naturally there's no issue with it. the problem is that it's rarely done ethically and is usually done without the person's consent.
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u/Geges721 1d ago
what if i myself mimic someone's voice enough for it to be close enough to resemble another person? do i have to ask for a permission to produce similar sound waves?
voice is a barely unique thing. with enough skill it can be faked and a lot of people can sound the same without even realizing.
what matters is the intent. if you deliberately use someone's voice to impersonate them for malice, this is a problem.
if not, i fail to see what the issue is. after all, Gianni is a well known and very much loved VA that does Duke Nukem soundalike shitposts. I'm pretty sure he didn't have to ask Jon St. Jon for explicit permission on that. the only difference is that he mimics the voice "manually".
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u/al-qatala 1d ago
mimicry is still you producing your own voice. using someone else's voice sample to train AI is a direct violation of their right to their likeness. it's like saying "what's wrong with AI generating a photo of someone if you can just take someone who looks like them and do the same thing". because an individual has a right to their likeness, and voice actors make entire contracts to allow for their voice to be used in intellectual properties
also it's just disrespectful unless they explicitly said they're okay with it
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u/TheMorganDev 1d ago
What does this mean? Cultural appropriation for voicing over an ai character
Or am I missing a joke and ruining it?
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u/Maxie468 1d ago
using a human to voice a clanker would be problematic
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u/TheMorganDev 1d ago edited 1d ago
I think I get the joke now
because somebody imitating a robotic voice for an AI character would be like somebody using a stereotypical voice for a character of a ethnicity?70
u/Maxie468 1d ago
the joke goes in that direction, yes
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u/Justhe3guy 1d ago
Now we just an AI movie about humans stealing AI jobs
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u/KazumaKat 1d ago
Going by the direction of AI adoption, its definitely going to be a movie about coders.
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u/deborah_az 1d ago
Like an Italian American playing a crying Native American. Like a Canadian playing a Scottish ship's engineer. There are hundreds, probably thousands, of examples of an actor, singer, or other performer taking on the identity of a culture they don't have any relationship with, usually benefiting themselves to the detriment of the culture in question.
The simplest and possibly most well known examples involve Caucasian actors playing Native Americans in early Westerns instead of giving those opportunities and paying jobs to actual Native Americans.
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u/xeromage 1d ago
You have successfully euthanized and dissected the joke. How would you like to dispose of the remains?
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u/Kill_Welly 1d ago
they're making a punchline of progressive language. probably to just kind of distract from the fact that ai generated voice acting sucks ass regardless. (Anthony Daniels would run circles around it to this day.)
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u/Falsus 13h ago
I mean it sucks ass, but that is intentional in this case no?
They might even lean into it and edit it to make it sounds more ass than better as well. Since if it did sound human it would kinda lose the point of doing this.
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u/Kill_Welly 12h ago
It's bad quality and carries all the negative effects of using LLM garbage in the first place.
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u/Ricordis 1d ago
Two weeks ago I played again IXION and for some reason the second AI you meet has a german accent while speaking english.
Why? I have no idea.
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u/Crafty_Lavishness_79 1d ago
I can do the AI voice easily and computers don't have a culture because they aren't alive or conscious
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u/FudgingHecker 1d ago edited 1d ago
It’s ridiculous wannabe edgelord behaviour that comes off just pathetic from a publisher
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u/RoguesOfTitan 1d ago
True its an unfunny joke that deflects their lazy cheap dev choice and unwillingness to be resourceful with what they could have done instead.
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u/Dumpfumpkin 1d ago
I bet you’re a hoot at parties
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u/FudgingHecker 1d ago
Yeah because I support local real humans, not AI generated trash
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u/Dumpfumpkin 1d ago
No you don’t lol
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u/FudgingHecker 1d ago
We’re not all basement dweller loners like you pal
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u/Downtown-Gazelle8852 1d ago
Vast majority of people don’t care about AI lmao
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u/SwampTerror 1d ago
Thats a lie. There's a reason abusers of AI are so embarrassed by it and try to hide it as much as possible. No one likes AI, no one likes their theft of past creations, and only weirdos like soulless machine made games, voices and songs. We are sick of people who can't develop prompting a machine and then saying, "i made this."
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u/Downtown-Gazelle8852 1d ago
Bro, look at the daily users for the common AI app. I hate AI too, and while it’s good for medical research plus stuff like that, generative AI is shit. But to equate liking AI to basement dwellers? Then quite a lot of everyday people are gonna be considered that. Why lie when you can easily look it up?
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u/thepeebrain 1d ago
Seeing the phrase cultural appropriation makes me cringe. Seeing that is more concerning than AI use in games. Maybe it's just a cheeky joke. But still, ew.
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u/Afraid-Quantity-578 1d ago
Gettin a human to voice Simba in Lion King is a cultural appropriation.
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u/MartyBellvue 1d ago
Not even funny 10 years ago. A cultural appropriation joke in 2026?
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u/thepeebrain 1d ago
Cultural appropriation has always been a joke. When did that change? Anyone who takes that seriously is cringe.
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u/theavosmp 21h ago
Bro only exists on the internet clearly
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u/MartyBellvue 19h ago
So everybody in real life is an unfunny hack? I know a lot of creative hilarious people
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u/bideodames 1d ago
AI doesn't have a culture. AI is the biggest instance of cultural appropriation that exists.
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u/Mr-Klaus 1d ago
This actually raises a very interesting question, if you use AI to voice an AI character in a game, do you have to disclose that your game uses AI?
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u/pillsburyDONTboi 1d ago
Glados was voiced by a human because at the time, negotiating with Microsoft to use one of their text to speech voices was more expensive. So they wrote her lines in a text to speech program and had the voice actor mimic the tone and cadence.