Jennifer Hale is one of the most renowned voice actors in games, lending her talents to series like Mass Effect, Baldur's Gate, and Metal Gear Solid. She's also, predictably, not a huge fan of the threat artificial intelligence poses to the industry and made some choice comments on the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strikes to that effect.
Speaking to Variety (thanks, IGN), AI is again causing consternation, with actors doing everything in their power to halt its existential threat. Generative AI pulls from the performances of real actors to create something new and usually worse, not that that is likely to deter unscrupulous companies from chasing the bottom dollar. Hale puts things in even stronger terms:
"The truth is, AI is just a tool like a hammer. If I take my hammer, I could build you a house. I can also take that same hammer and I can smash your skin and destroy who you are. If you use something that originated in our body or our voices, can we please get paid? Because now you’re using technology to take away our ability to feed our kids."