I get it. Kevin was and will forever be my Batman. But this is just fucking disgusting. The man could emote using his voice, breath, and pauses unlike any other Batman - no amount of LLM bullshit will capture that.
“honoring his legacy” by having a robot ingest and synthesize his voice and replace the work of other actors with something that might kind of sound like him.
AI freaks are genuinely just incredibly stupid, rude children who think we all have to play with their little toy, and they need to grow up.
“to honour the legacy of this great and beloved actor, we pulled him out of his grave, tied strings to his limbs and puppeted some of his greatest performances”
I get the disrespect, but I think your comparison is a bit over the top…
Maybe, but you know full well that some wouldn’t bat an eye at selling you “Frank Sinatra sings Banana Song and other meme tunes”
But that’s exactly what it is, pretty accurate even. Let the dead man rest.
I’m pretty sure no showel or string were used to train ai so I will not go with the « pretty accurate » part of your comment. What I see is a lack of education in this use of ai. But this lack of education and empathy is visible in the whole society so I’m not really surprised it’s visible in ai.
Let’s perform a thought experiment.
This is a mod, so it’s fan-made, so the company has some plausible deniability.
But suppose that a fan made a mod which replaces the Batman model with a carefully-rendered and textured version of Kevin Conroy’s naked body. Just ol’ Kevin, kicking and back flipping through the whole game with his dick, balls, taint, and asshole on full display all throughout.
Would the company require that mod to be taken down, or would they be cool with it?
Because how is this any less of an obscene violation of Kevin Conroy than a nakey Kevin Conroy mod would be?
Am I supposed to be against nude mods now?
TBF even if they had censored the genitalia it would be still be a shitty move. Even famous people have the right to their identity being used
Even if it was just ripping off their voice it’s a shitty move. Even famous people, who make a living on their vocal characteristics, have the right to their identity being used.
See what we did there? Fuck this AI bullshit.
Oh yeah definitely. But was only talking about the hypothetical other mod that was in the comment.
The studio must never want to work with real voice actors ever again, because pulling shit like this is how you accomplish that.
This looks like a mod though, has the little Nexus Mods symbol on it.
It is a mod.
By Nexus standards, it’s still a niche mod not much widely used given the few endorsements (aka thumbs up) as most of the download counts are plainly come-and-go. But for the most part, the fandom on Twitter are really determined at having the mod cancelled.
I mean, it’s just a mod that someone put together using Conroy’s voice through some weird AI service. I don’t think a studio was involved here
Might be a sneaky way to gauge interest. Even if not, studios will be paying attention.
