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I'm DONE with this fucked up weather. And Tennessee in general. Fuck these tornadoes! Fuck these rednecks! Fuck this place! New Zealand is going to be my home no matter how hard I have to bust my ass to get there! I am DONE! 😌💚🖤

yall were blessed by this gem of a creator and your first instinct was to run them out of the community???

this is why everyone hates simblr, yall are toxic AS HELL.

please come back yamakaiji :(((((

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This is my first official mesh edit (LOL). It took me a while to figure out blender but I am proud of this. This hair comes in 3 versions. If there are any issues please let me know. This hair is a mesh edit of @qicc‘s Noora Hair. Thank you Akos for allowing me to do this. I hope you all enjoy!

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18 Maxis Swatches + Modified Maxis Swatches

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IF I COULD LEAVE I WOULDVE ALREADY LEFT

I'm just one person but I am blind enough that I can tell when something is AI voiced and lemme tell you, it sounds like shit. I Will Not pay for anything using AI voices. If I buy something somehow and find out it's AI, I'm sending it back. I hated when they started paying Hollywood actors who couldn't voice act just for their names, I really hate this kind of bullshit. And fuck you SAG-AFTRA. How dare you go back on your values like this.

WE LIVE IN A HELL WORLD

Engadget

SAG-AFTRA strikes deal for AI voice acting licensing in video games at CES 2024

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands of performers, has struck a deal with an AI voice acting platform aimed at making it easier for

Snippets from the article by Karissa Bell:

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing thousands of performers, has struck a deal with an AI voice acting platform aimed at making it easier for actors to license their voice for use in video games. ...

the agreements cover the creation of so-called “digital voice replicas” and how they can be used by game studios and other companies. The deal has provisions for minimum rates, safe storage and transparency requirements, as well as “limitations on the amount of time that a performance replica can be employed without further payment and consent.”

Notably, the agreement does not cover whether actors’ replicas can be used to train large language models (LLMs), though Replica Studios CEO Shreyas Nivas said the company was interested in pursuing such an arrangement. “We have been talking to so many of the large AAA studios about this use case,” Nivas said. He added that LLMs are “out-of-scope of this agreement” but “they will hopefully [be] things that we will continue to work on and partner on.”

...Even so, some well-known voice actors were immediately skeptical of the news, as the BBC reports. In a press release, SAG-AFTRA said the agreement had been approved by "affected members of the union’s voiceover performer community." But on X, voice actors said they had not been given advance notice. "How has this agreement passed without notice or vote," wrote Veronica Taylor, who voiced Ash in Pokémon. "Encouraging/allowing AI replacement is a slippery slope downward." Roger Clark, who voiced Arthur Morgan in Red Dead Redemption 2, also suggested he was not notified about the deal. "If I can pay for permission to have an AI rendering of an ‘A-list’ voice actor’s performance for a fraction of their rate I have next to no incentive to employ 90% of the lesser known ‘working’ actors that make up the majority of the industry," Clark wrote.

SAG-AFTRA’s deal with Replica only covers a sliver of the game industry. Separately, the union is also negotiating with several of the major game studios after authorizing a strike last fall. “I certainly hope that the video game companies will take this as an inspiration to help us move forward in that negotiation,” Crabtree said.

And here are some various reactions I've found about things people in/adjacent to this can do

And in OTHER AI games news, Valve is updating it's TOS to allow AI generated content on steam so long as devs promise they have the rights to use it, which you can read more about on Aftermath in this article by Luke Plunkett

aftermath.site

Steam's New AI Rules Will Open The Floodgates To A River Of Shit - Aftermath

'Our goal continues to be shipping as many games as possible'

Friendly reminder that Jason Grace only had one birthday in his memory—not because Hera stole his memories, but because he didn't know his birthday until he was 15 and Thalia told him (since he was abandoned at 2 and hadn't learned his birthday yet) and died before his 17th— and that one birthday was the day Percy and Annabeth fell into Tartarus....

If i ever post something about r*dfems again someone shoot me because literally just seeing them interact with my posts made my mental health nearly tank.