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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If a post is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Be nice. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements to private messages.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/54126025

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[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wish they would. AI VA could be so great if people were just paid properly.

Imagine- You have the English Voice track for Arnie in Terminator- but you need a Chinese version.

Old worlds- You either have a bad local VA that sucks but is at least 'acting' OR you have people reading the script over the English version, you get the inflections from English, but the verbiage from local... script readers.

Imagine if instead of using AI to cheap out, you got those local VA's to do a version of the voices (and paid them!) then ran it through an NN so that the input was the local VA and the output is a combination of that and Arnold's voice (and all parties are paid appropriately, this isn't suppose to be a cheap out process) such that you could hear 'arnie' in all langauges - That would be great.

But instead we just get cheating artists out of pay for a worse quality product.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They can't even make money stealing other people's work. Actually paying for it is out of the question. Right now they're still living in the free money portion of a bubble. The crash is going to hurt a lot.

[–] fermionsnotbosons@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

It won't hurt them though, not when they get that bailout money from public funds so that only we have to suffer the consequences of their actions.

[–] Soup@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

You’ve already shown a flaw, which is that English inflections do not match other languages. “I will go” in English is not “Je irai” in French but rather some more like “moi, j’irai.” The sound of the voice also wouldn’t make any sense because different dubs will change to fit local stereotypes. In the states they will have someone sound like a redneck but in Germany they might lean into a Bavarian accent for the same effect.

With the low level of understanding demonstrated in your comment, plus the high level of confidence in your solution, you’re showing exactly why it’s a bad idea. Just pay voice actors and pay them enough that they will actually be of a certain quality instead of bitching that the dime-store VA people aren’t giving you top-tier performances.

Take the AI and throw it straight in the garbage. We don’t need it and we don’t fucking want it. All it does is cost more money to produce a product that only an ignorant, over-confident corpo thinks is any good.