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Stellaris gets a DLC about AI that features AI-created voices, director insists it's 'ethical' and 'we're pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don't want to end up there ourselves' (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

While everyone here is screeching about jerbs, I would like to point out that using AI voices to voice an AI is an artistic genius in itself.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah it's real luddite hours here

"How will voicebot 2.0 pay for his child's oil now?"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Are you an idiot?

People are worried about the actual voice actors who voice act the characters.

Do you think GLaDOS was voiced by a potato battery?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

The Luddites ruled actually:

The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers who opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving machinery, and often destroyed the machines in clandestine raids. They protested against manufacturers who used machines in "a fraudulent and deceitful manner" to replace the skilled labour of workers and drive down wages by producing inferior goods.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite

It's very similar to protesting the use of AI to make an obviously inferior product, but apparently you think it's an insult.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I’m sick of the Luddite slander. They were completely right and people need to know

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They were idiots trying to maintain a poverty based system simply because they weren't on the very lowest rung. They were also proven very wrong, demand for textiles increased dramatically as prices fell and areas where there had been nothing but privation flourished into affluent communities with longer lifespans, better wages and improved living conditions for everyone even the lowest classes - this resulted in improvements literacy amoung the poor and resulted in the erosion of the class system as the early industrial era matured.

If the luddities had won we'd all be far worse off now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You are conflating technology and its benefits with the owning class's misuse of that technology. Capitalist apologists love to do this because otherwise the crimes of capitalism would have to stand on their own and there would be no defending them.

It's exactly this conflation that lets people claim that the luddites were entirely anti-technology, but they weren't. Again this is a lie that has been spread by capitalists to defend their own image.

The luddites were killed and suppressed by the military and the government made industrial sabotage a capital offense, and then slandered them. Maybe if they'd won we'd live in a world where reporters weren't murdered over the Panama papers for instance.