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Future? No Thanks! dev removes AI-generated voices from game and offers refunds to players who feel "betrayed"

“In my opinion the game is worse now, but only, like, 0.001% worse”

— Rock Paper Shotgun

What happened

The developer of the satirical indie game Future? No Thanks! removed two AI text-to-speech voices, for a robot toilet and a robot hair-salon translator, after an online backlash. He says he used them as a spoof of AI, and is offering refunds over PayPal or Venmo to anyone who still feels betrayed.

Read it at Rock Paper Shotgun ↗