Age is the real Path of Pain.

Yeah, it's almost like the technology itself isn't actually revolutionary at all but is just procedural generation except bad.

Weird.

Yeah it's every single one of them. I had a company I was at pivot into it so I got to see the experiments real up close and personal.

Not a single use case is viable. Not one.

And all of this is dancing around how bad the tech is. AI performances suck. That part might get better over time but even if it does all those other problems don't.

AI voice actors can't work. They fundamentally cannot. Pursuing this is a waste of time and money.

It's actually more realistic and immersive if your actors just ignore bad-faith questions. That's often what actors in real life will do.

How can a computer ever know if a question is earnest? How do you program sand to detect what humans often can't detect?

If you press an actor in real life they can MAYBE deflect in a way that's natural to the character, if they're particularly good at their job, but even a professional would struggle under a prolonged assault.

We live in a world where puddles are the subject of internet scrutiny. Get real folks.

Imagine you're playing Skyrim and the NPC uses a plural on the word dragon to imply he'd been fighting multiple at once. Simple mistake. Right?

Well players have a history of digging into that. How'd this NPC survive multiple dragons? Can multiple even spawn? Where was that?!

Interactive theater projects exist. We hire people for them and the writer tells them what to say. Often exactly what to say because deviating can kill the story.

Even reasonable improv can imply things that break immersion.

I'm a professional and it's hard for even me to improv accurate lore.

Obviously replacing all actors is bad, but also it can't work. At best you're using mediocre performances for all your arrow to the knee lines, the incidental moments with random NPCs.

Beyond that, though, you want random lines of dialogue in your world? Even Disneyland doesn't allow full improv.

Yeah fair. Either way let's redo the sequels but Rey is a Gen Z mental health influencer learning the ways that her culture and the old culture are wrong, finding balance in the force using a mixture of different viewpoints.

"actually, Yoda, it turns out that fear and anger aren't what lead to the dark side. Suppressing your emotions is what does it. Anger can be perfectly healthy. [Uses force lightning to cook a balanced breakfast of toast and grilled fruits]"

It's such a peaceful life!

Oh that sounds fun!