5 points
For me it’s that it could be used to do much MORE with the same investment. Look at Skyrim. Where we had Lydia and a voice actor for a few lines of dialogue (and they were shared with many other NPCs), with AI they could effectively make Lydia a full fledged companion where you could ask them questions and talk with them, for the same cost as the original version.
Instead they’re trying to REPLACE actors as you said to save money. No, it should be IN ADDITION to everything. You still need to hire the voice actor, train their model, PAY FOR THEIR FULL LINES, and then you can do some AI stuff too at the end to round out the character more.
