AI! It's changing the world, you know. Pretty soon, there'll be no poverty, no hunger, no fear, and no doubt. The chiliasts were right: just over the horizon is a sweet eternity, brought about—somehow—by feeding a vast quantity of stolen art into a spellcheck machine and generating oceans of non-consensual deepfake pornography.
I'm sceptical. So too, kind of, is renowned videogame voice actor Troy Baker (Joel in The Last of Us, Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle), although he sounds a bit more optimistic than I am. In a chat with The Game Business (via Eurogamer), Baker said he's not scared of the tech, and suggested that when it all shakes out, a big impact of AI could be to renew people's interest in human-made art over machine-generated "content".
