Baba's Super Great Guild Wars 2 Blog

(with screenshots)

I come with screenshots, and also want to say that the WARP discord server is public. You can double check any of this and verify it. All I've done is block out some usernames and it's not hard to get those.

The concrete information I have gathered from reading the entirety of the AI channel in the WARP server is:

- a WARP dev made the channel and utilizes a currently-growing AI creator, using screenshots and uncredited art.

- other members of the server use various pre-made AI art programs of varying dubious quality

- one member actively programs and creates AI art functions, and they focus on charr which they have actively made two programs for, scraping both art and screenshots. It is hypothesized by many people that the charr program was trained on the art of @vateo (Vateo if you confirm the resemblance I'm so sorry this happened under your nose)

- tumblr has been mentioned by name as a *suggested* good source but with no confirmation of its use or not. It could be, but I'm not going to make assumptions past fact in this.

- the dev of WARP is actively interested in and asking about AI rp bots, but has not actively created one yet.

Screenshots directly from the server are below the cut

The fan made gw2 rp extension, WARP, was caught today as being not just pro ai but having members of their discord actively making ai for rp chat bots and an ai to make generated charr art, all being fed art and player rps taken without consent. The devs are actively supporting and helping build these bots off stolen art and writing, and are likely using the tumblr gw2 tags as one source for the work they're stealing

sunija is the creator/developer of WARP, so no, it's not just mods or random users

also, some general shitty discussion about artists not liking ai thieves + someone suggesting this person use gw2 tumblr art tags to train their ai (unsure what site theyre using currently)

ruins.

its really good to see all the fans and friends in the industry sticking up for him, hopefully if we cause enough of an uproar theyll realize how integral dimaggio is to the futurama legacy. his role as bender is iconic alone but he played many roles throughout the show and it just wouldnt be the same without him. 

Voice actors often work long hours and directors would call for take after take after take even when it was a screaming role. VAs often found themselves being pushed past their physical limits, resulting in overstressed or damaged vocal chords in search of that perfect take which could result in unpaid leave to recover.

The production companies also engaged in shady casting practices. VAs would audition for roles with little info beyond male/female character and perhaps the genre. Multiple VAs found themselves blindly acting out a role, paid peanuts and only after the show/game/book was released finding out they’d paid peanuts for portraying one of the most iconic characters ever. The blind casting also reduced diversity casting. Laura Bailey and other were dogpiled on social media for accepting PoC roles, when they themselves didn’t even know what character they were playing. Laura resigned from the role in question and demanded a WoC VA be cast when she found out, but she received a lot of unnecessary abuse in the meantime.