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Joshua Wolens

Astarion voice actor Neil Newbon sinks his fangs into AI and shreds it: 'AI sucks … It doesn't have the happy accident possibility that are those great moments in film'

Astarion looking quizzical in Baldur's Gate 3.

AI! It's the new big thing. It's the foundation of the 21st-century digital economy. It's going to feed the hungry and clothe the naked. It will punish the wicked and reward the righteous. It'll bring about the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come. And you're going to lose your job if you don't learn how to use it.

That's what I hear from people whose multi-trillion dollar market caps ride on AI continuing to be the next big thing, anyway, but down here in the muck? Opinions vary. Take Neil Newbon, who you almost certainly know as the actor for Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3, for instance. In a recent chat with Radio Times Gaming, Newbon spoke some hot truth about just how useful AI could be for actors like him: "It's shit."

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