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While this article goes very rightly into the disrespect actors have faced in dubbing, underneath that is an entire ecosystem of abused and rushed freelancers doing the timecoding, adapting, directing, engineering, and mixing who Amazon also attempted to cut. www.avclub.com/amazon-ai-an...

If you've ever worked in anime localization/dubbing then you would know that the client needs to be aware of EVERY decision by the studio. They have final say on everything; even casting choices. Amazon doing this without their knowledge is HUGE. At the very least it would endanger their license.

Indie animation and game development is here to stay because it MUST be. Otherwise soon enough there won’t exist a sector of the industry willing to tell or support the stories already starting to be snuffed out.

I've not spoken about this much—both because it feels self-aggrandizing and isn't super relevant beyond the folks directly involved—but: The Game Jam Waiver (*the* most accessible way to make games Union) was created + is maintained by marginalized people. I feel like this is a major piece of why.

One evil has been slain - but I hear the LATAM Spanish AI dub is still up. This needs to be fixed also.

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an update to this: it seems they’ve (silently) removed the AI ENG version of their dubbed beta for some anime (Banana Fish included) HOWEVER, the Spanish AI dub betas are still up. keep demanding for its removal please — all languages deserve equal respect with dubs and subs. thank you.

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Amazon has had many opportunities to create dubbing projects filled with authentic storytelling, emotional connection, and believability. Instead they have chosen to create AI slop dubs of Banana Fish, Vinland Saga, and No Game No life. Many are calling these dubs "insulting" and "disrespectful".

As someone who works in the tech industry--absolutely. They are testing the waters. These are top-down orders. The ONLY way to stop it is a visceral negative reaction. Write articles. Post your rage. Email. Post. @. All those things. Only you have the power to kill it.

As someone who loves to watch so-bad-its-good content PLEASE understand you can't give shit like this the time of day The only way to convince these companies to not use AI dubbing is to show it's not profitable, STAY AWAY from hate-watching and instead spend that time watching dubs you love

This shit is why I'm getting less and less work on anime and having to scramble to ask around with YouTubers for help letting me do their CCs just to pay my damn rent. There's enough anime to caption out there that I should not be fucking struggling.

Honest to God I think your average novice voice actor on Twitter or Bluesky could do an infinitely better fandub of this from home. …Hell, why don’t you? Call it the “Banana Fish Challenge”. Dub a scene from the show in English and show the suits at Amazon how shit they are.

I really hope the anime voice actors who remorselessly scabbed during the strike see this and have a real Ebenezer Scrooge ass moment

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It’s that time of year again!

It feels really performative at this point, but a reminder that it’s National Day of Mourning for Native folks Relatedly, thousands of Native women are still disappearing and agencies are doing fuck all about it Learn more here: www.niwrc.org/mmiwr-awaren... And here: notournativedaughters.org

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Dubbing will continue to stagnate until serious time and consideration is given to the pattern of severe undercutting that is prevalent in the industry. Budgets are getting slashed on workers who were already expected to cut corners with low pay. Adapters and translators are your backbone.

If nearly everyone had an STD, I’d still want people to disclose that shit.

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now

If you see an audition for Unicorn Academy, no you didn't. Down with union busting

Hey. Kindly reminder. Content creators are not your friends just because you like their work. You do not know who we are. This goes double for anyone under 18; be very careful about interacting with adults. If any adult makes you feel uncomfortable, DO NOT ENGAGE THEM. RUN.

Oh my god that is the worst possible answer

Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art. Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.

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Begging some of you to understand that a voice actor acknowledging or putting out a video message as a character they used to voice - even when there’s a new VA - is not disrespectful. If Jaleel White recorded himself as Sonic today, would you descend on him angrily and accuse him of disrespect?

A place of honor and goodness. A bastion of hope. A lighthouse in the long dark. A pillar of the community. YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY, BABY!!!

Not much to say about Trans Day of Remembrance anymore besides “try loving and celebrating us while we are alive”

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, I would have you remember that there are trans people alive who need your action now, not your reflective words later. Remembering us is not enough.

Why am I so against generative AI in games? Because I simply do not want my initial reaction to art to be one of suspicion and scrutiny, AI slop is fundamentally damaging my relationship to art and artistry, and I am deeply resentful that it is forcing me to be guarded when I should be wowed.

Oh yeah btw the reason why Vine is being relaunched with great fanfare and no Al is because it's jointly operated with an Al company and they probably don;t want to pollute their scrap pile with stuff they've already shat out.

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I've been doing video game VO since 2003. In my 20+ years, only ONE game has ever paid "royalties/residuals/bonus payments." That game? Date Everything. And that's ONLY because it's a game produced by professional voice actors who purposefully created a special contract for the game w/ SAG-AFTRA.

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The season 1 finale of TWO THOUSAND AND LATE is here!!! STEP NINE: BURN IT ALL DOWN. SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION (THROUGH ARSON). OVERTHROW MANAGEMENT (LITERALLY). FACE DOWN ANOTHER DEMON FROM HELL...wait, what? pod.link/1835711536/e...

You're gonna see some prolific VA talent get in bed with AI in the coming months/years while their less prolific community members lose opportunities across the board due to it. Some of them don't care. Some of them are too focused on the bag and the attention to do so.

By proceeding with the loading of my groceries in the car before seeking approval from alleged "cashiers," I forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving."

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

“But my audience is there”, I hear people say. I can’t help but wonder how much of that audience is still real.