Believe me, I honestly want to believe

[pale cipher]

we are in the age of "Reality is anything you want it to be" 😄

[fringe ledge]

What do you mean by that?

[pale cipher]

the current tendency to automatically classify things as "must be AI" if it falls just slightly outside of the persons expectations

[brazen hull]

I've pointed out the specifics -i.e. the deviation from the norm- that makes me question if it's AI or not.

[pale cipher]

"the norm" is subjective when it comes to recorded audio though
Perhaps you've spotted something many others have missed, perhaps it's just due to sound mixing or recording quality diff between 2 sessions, who knwos ?

[brazen hull]

Because it's not sound, but lyrincs. And sure, that could be dismissed if it was a non-english speaker singing them, but each time they slip up, it's different. So either it's not a human (A.I. notoriously hates rpetitions and patterns unless you tell it otherwise) or the voice actor is lazy.

[pale cipher]

maybe the voice actor had a hangover that day... 😄

[real vine]

Their first language is indeed not English, that much I know for sure

[brazen hull]

See now that could add to the immersion! Get that man a drink!

[real vine]

Aight Imma be honest. It's almost 1AM for me and I'm low on sleep as is so I apologize if this sounds close to incoherent or something.
As I said. Especially right now when all the devs are asleep the best I can do is tell you what I've been told which is that they do not use A.I. in any part of the process, shanties included. That being said, you obviously don't have to believe me or them on it and can debate on it however, I'm gonna ask nicely that we at the very least keep it civil because I'm too tired to fight any kinda fight

[pale cipher]

No worries, my point really was just to lament the fact that we so rapidly attribute anything "unusual" to AI nowadays
And it's only going to get worse as AI improves...

[real vine]

I'm not saying you weren't keeping it civil either just making sure you have my take on this

[brazen hull]

Yeah, all good, apologies. I was just looking as to what the plan is for shanties, and you have provided that, so thanks and cheers

[real vine]

All good, no need to apologize, it's a legit question to be raised, I'm just letting you know what info I have