Astarion actor Neil Newbon doesn’t get why games like Arc Raiders using ‘dull as hell’ AI for voice work don’t ‘go back and actually redo the lines with actors’ once they make it big

AI-generated voice ‘acting’—despite the fact I’ve never heard an example that hasn’t immediately made me less interested in a videogame—has still become more ubiquitous in gaming. Arc Raiders, by all accounts a dang successful videogame, uses it for text-to-speech lines. Speaking to PCGamesN, the voice actor for Baldur’s Gate 3’s Astarion, Neil Newbon (who knows…

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Anthropic reveals that as few as ‘250 malicious documents’ are all it takes to poison an LLM’s training data, regardless of model size

Claude-creator Anthropic has found that it’s actually easier to ‘poison’ Large Language Models than previously thought. In a recent blog post, Anthropic explains that as few as “250 malicious documents can produce a ‘backdoor’ vulnerability in a large language model—regardless of model size or training data volume.” These findings arose from a joint study between…

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Surprise! Hollow Knight: Silksong’s getting an expansion promising ‘new areas, bosses, tools, and more’ next year

Hollow Knight: Silksong is already a big game, but Team Cherry has just come out and said it ain’t big enough. The studio announced a Silksong expansion, planned for 2026, titled Sea of Sorrow. “New areas, bosses, tools, and more” await in a “nautically themed expansion,” which will be free for Silksong owners. “We’ll keep…

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