I love how upset people get about things like this
Your coffee is made by enslaved children and people shrug
Your clothes were made in a sweatshop and people shrug
Your music is owned by corporate monsters who impose absurd copyright to steal culture from those that live in it and people shrug
A theoretical voice actor misses out on a small role and you go wild calling for boycotts and making unhinged tweets at the company?
Very weird priorities.
Almost like it’s totally unserious and nothing but self Important performative nonsense.
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.
Yeah it’s real luddite hours here
“How will voicebot 2.0 pay for his child’s oil now?”
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?
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.
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.
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.
So your argument is that their stated aims were a lie and speeches claimed to be from notable figures in the movement were fabricated after the fact? Further that their violent actions should have been overlooked and if they had been there would be no corruption in the world today?
Surely you can see how that argument is about as credible as flat earth?
I don’t understand why people think they can just rewrite history to suit their needs.
What speeches? What stated aims? You need to make claims if you want me to address them.
You want me to give you a history lesson? Funny that when you wanted people to believe an inversion of the history everyone knows you didn’t see any need for sources but now you expect me to meticulously demonstrate every word? and yes we all know it’ll never be enough…
It doesn’t matter though because you’re not serious about what you’re saying and literally no one would belive your nonsense.
I’m sick of the Luddite slander. They were completely right and people need to know
we’re pretty good at exploring dystopian sci-fi and don’t want to end up there ourselves
