AI use has easily been one of the most controversial topics this year in film and video games. Actors have expressed an understandable weariness of the technology, saying that it could one day be used to replace them.
David Cockle, the actor who lent his voice to Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher series, recently raised concerns about the use of AI for video games.
In a recent interview with IGN, the voice actor said that the adoption of AI is inevitable and unfortunate, as it replaces human actors. He also said that the use of digitized clones of voices is somehow unethical.
"AI is inevitable and developers will use AI. We are not 100% sure exactly what that means," Cockle said. "They're already doing it in various ways, filling in the background, NPC voices, and things like that, which is unfortunate because those voices were all human beings at one point, and the voices are all modeled on human beings. So they have taken someone's voice, put it into their database, digitized it, and are using it to say things that the individual never said. There's something unethical about that and so there's a lot of debate going on."
