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To be quite honest, their days are numbered. AI voice generation will make these jobs completely obsolete in the next few years.
Don't believe me? Just listen to AI generated music using the voice of famous singers. Voice acting by humans doesn't really have a future, sadly.
Disagree honestly.
AI music isn't inventing sick rifts or using new instruments together. Humans do. We'll continue to make the better music
Voice acting is similar. Without Patrick Warburton AI would never generate such a distinct sound.
Now will companies continue to hire them? That's the argument, but if they don't their product will be bad and we're seeing companies struggling because their products are bad and people don't want them anymore: Starfield, Star Wars Outlaw, Concord, etc.
Yeah, the AI songs are just overlays on an already existing song. Even when making something new the AI has to be "trained" on existing material. They can't make something from nothing... yet.
And that's the important part: "yet".
AI is fairly new, so it only has human-created datasets to work off. But at some point, it'll either generate original content on its own, or rely on content already created by other AI.
The quality and originality of this content will probably be stale, but enough of it will be generated to make money and keep people interested, that I don't think it'll matter. The enshitification of the arts is rapidly upon us.
What you're describing there is called model collapse and it's not a good thing. A generative AI ouroboros accumulates error until its output is useless.
We're already seeing this, but I don't think that will stop people from using AI (with some human oversight). Countless articles are being generated each day using AI, just so that someone can publish a garbage website that gets a lot of views, and reap those sweet advertising dollars. The quality of the content on the internet is eroding, and i don't think we'll be able to put the genie back in the bottle.
I'm seeing more and more legitimate websites no longer using stock images, but AI generated images for their photo content. It's just too easy, so why wouldn't they, right?