If you're as concerned about Punch-kun as I am, here's a timeline of his latest activity. www.pnj.com/story/news/2... #PunchTheMonkey

This sounds like an Onion article, but it's completely real.

Kudos to German voice actors for standing firm on the issue of contractual language on AI training! www.reuters.com/business/med...

Stop doom-scrolling. Hold on this and smile for a bit. :)

If you’re interested and able to financially support our siblings in Minnesota, you can contribute to the Minnesota AFL-CIO’s fundraiser providing mutual aid and emergency legal funds to impacted union members here: bit.ly/4rlpPKS.

I was on Behind the Voice talking about how I assembled the amazing cast for Rosewater, how more indies should take advantage of SAG-AFTRA's contracts, and what I'd like to see more of in adventure games! youtu.be/THM3k6UqOCU?...

Speaking as someone who's worked with Capcom, stays in touch with its people, and has, shall we say, professional room to maneuver, I'll just say that contrary to what the technical director in the IGN article asserts, I know for a *fact* many Capcom employees are VEHEMENTLY against this direction.

Nah, people are just accurately noting that, with a *scant* few exceptions here and there (like medical research), AI has made life worse, not better, for society. That's not an opinion, that's a quantifiable, measurable fact.

We need real innovation -not exploitation. When AI is trained on stolen creative works, everyone loses. Instead of culture, art, writing, and music, all we'll be left with is static & silence. NAVA is proud to be a signatory on this campaign. #StealingIsntInnovation www.stealingisntinnovation.com

People who don’t know how to make a PDF: “AI is inevitable.”

I was honored to win a SOVAS Award for my Audio Description performance in "King of the Hill." My greatest honor? To stand among the other nominees, who strive to create the best AD experience they can to blind and low-vision audiences. #AudioDescription #KingOfTheHill vimeo.com/1156092001?s...

OK, enough AI-bashing posts (for now...). For the sake of a positivity injection, here's a bunny jumping in slow motion. :)

Juuuuuust making a casual observation here, buuuuuut...if AI data centers are such an awesome thing, why are they telling people who ask questions about them to sign NDAs? www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TwA... #AIDataCenter

youtu.be/Szqf2W2UZMo?... “Breakdown” on the Xbox wasn’t exactly a major seller, but man, I really enjoyed playing it. Towards the end, it had one of the cooler plot twists that I’ve seen in a video game.

HELL YEAH!! Look at what we did TOGETHER! Comic-con has quietly changed their language and will NOT allow GenAi imagery in their art show! And this happened because you all wrote letters, and shared your concerns! Speaking up works EVERY time! So congrats friends! We did this together!!! 🙌🙌💖💖💖

It's not enough to look down upon AI: we also have to give praise and credit where credit's due to those who are stepping up against it.

Warhammer maker Games Workshop has banned the use of AI in its content production and its design process, insisting that none of its senior managers are currently excited about the technology. https://bit.ly/49xT9Xl

I know, I know, I know this is old....but I just re-discovered it today and had a good laugh...largely because this is *totally* what I would do if I was in Vader's position. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI39...

A belated congratulations to the cast and crew of the English dub of the Turkish Netflix thriller series, "The Town," which I had the pleasure of writing the English dub scripts for! www.netflix.com/watch/816120... #Netflix #TheTown #EnglishDub

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

As I've said elsewhere, I left Twitter a while back when it became clear that it was nothing but a cyber-wasteland of nazis and pornbots. Well, I stand corrected: it's a cyber-wasteland of nazis, pornbots, art theft, and now apparently CSAM. There's literally *no* point to being on Twitter anymore.

Found this online and thought it was funny: youtu.be/FEjckR9XJVo?...

The platform is stealing your art. It's stealing your writing, your drawings, your voice, and it's feeding all of it to a plagiarism machine while giving you *fake* likes and retweets to keep you addicted to it. L e a v e. Direct your audiences elsewhere and get off Twitter.

Left Twitter behind a whiiiiile back, and ever since, they've continually done an excellent job of convincing me *not* to come back.

So, I know Orson Welles's "Frozen Peas" voice-over session is often thought of as the all-time iconic "famous VO blooper" reel...but I would argue that the all-time best VO blooper reel is for Ernie Anderson's work doing promos for "America's Funniest Home Videos." www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdT1...

And just to be clear, sometimes actors do legitimately get tricked into auditioning for roles that they didn't know was a re-cast, and only learn about it after the fact. If that happens? So long as you're not violating any contractual commitments, you can always step down from the role.

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Ninja turtles rule actually 💚

I think AI-based innovations have done some legitimately cool things in the medical space.... .......but that's about it. Otherwise, it doesn't have much to brag about in the way of making things better. nymag.com/intelligence...

Yeah, I ditched my Twitter account a loooooong time ago when it became a cyber-wasteland of Nazis, porn-bots, and Nazi-bots. I lost a lot of the followers I gained from being in "Kuroko's Basketball," but in the end, it just wasn't worth it, and has grown less worth it as time has passed.

The #TwistedWonderland season finale is out now on Hulu and Disney+!

Don't replace the original cast of Unicorn Academy www.change.org/p/don-t-repl...

Capcom has said that they are planning a major push of their "Mega Man" franchise, to put it on par (prestige-wise, not tone-wise, haha) with "Resident Evil." Well, if I may put a public vote in...please make the third entry in the "Legends" series. They were two of my favorite games as a kid!

TWST S1 finale tonight 🥳

Historic win! 2 key performer protection bills are now laws in NY State, securing post-mortem digital replica rights & disclosure of synthetic performers in ads. Thank you Governor Kathy Hochul for signing & safeguarding #SagAftraMembers & NYers. Linda B. Rosenthal Senator Mike Gianaris Tony Simone#SagAftraMembers

Trying to help a blind Disney fan out by signal-boosting this. Disney makes phenomenal Audio Description tracks, and he'd love to see them added to these particular movies. Please consider helping him out by signing. c.org/Gw5JJJmJkH #AudioDescription #Accessibility #ZombieMovies

A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees. I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?

Makes me wonder if there were people at the ad agency who said, "Please don't do this, this is gonna backfire," only for those at the top to insist that they were over-reacting...and then find out the hard way that, no, they were not over-reacting.

For what it's worth, the number of social media followers one has is...not...*completely* irrelevant to casting, but it's a heck of a lot closer to being irrelevant than it was a few years ago. Heck, for many casting directors, it *is* irrelevant. Especially as more and more bot accounts emerge.

I don't fit the specs, but I'm re-posting in the hopes of spreading awareness to actors who may indeed fit the specs--that, and Kristi's a good person. :)

It's important to remember that Executive Orders effectively amount to legally non-binding recommendations. Basically telling the DOJ what to prioritize. All that to say, this isn't a law. Make your voices heard on every level to make sure it stays that way.

The producers pushing AI dubs are *absolutely* gonna try again. The tech will improve. It will be important for fans to make their voices heard when--not if--but *when* that happens. As this video says, it'll be important for us to tell AI, "Stay in your lane."

That's why union actors should show up to W&W meetings. Full transparency, I roll my eyes whenever somebody complains about a contract, only for me to ask if they ever showed up to a meeting, and for them to say, "No, but they should know better." *We* are "they." www.sagaftra.org/contracts-in...

"I feel a freakin' distoibance in the fawce..."

Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.

There are many reasons I hate the idea of AI "dubs," but one of them is that I personally have a (admittedly *very* nerdy) love of comparing the different dubs of movies/TV shows and hearing what different actors and different voices bring to the table. Case-in-point: youtu.be/TU_jc53ldFw?...