Great art continues to resonate throughout time.
That is exactly what this speech from Mass Effect does.
If you replace the word 'Reaper' with 'AI', you get a pretty accurate portrayal of some of the delightful opinions one encounters on social media today*.
This morning, I awoke to another client asking me about the possibility of building an AI model of my voice.
Not something I'm adverse to in principle.
I implement AI every day and have trailed collaborations with various AI voice providers to see what might be viable. I'm not 𝘑𝘜𝘚𝘛 anti-AI.
But I then had to spend 10 minutes telling them why the tools they proposed to use weren't fit for purpose for creating an AI model for a professional voice actor.
Because lots of people are trying to implement this tech quickly, without doing their due diligence.
It's the same reason part of me dies inside every time I see an obviously AI-generated image on my feed posted by someone I'm connected with.
I'm not saying you're a bad person.
But there's a fundamental lack of interrogation at the heart of all this, and it's so tiring to deal with.
I'm not naive enough to claim that there's any such thing as an ethically perfect tool - not as I type this on a device created by a brand well known for it's questionable production practices and rapid embracement of AI.
But a little self-awareness (and research) would go a long way!
*(the fact that the Reapers are in-fact a highly evolved machine race isn't lost on me, Mass Effect fans. I'm, talking to those who have missed out on this amazing franchise)
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