"Ideas like this usually just die": Inside generative AI’s effect on modding, and how host sites struggle to maintain transparency

AI voice tech called Elevenlabs was used to either impersonate the base version’s voice actors or generate lines for new characters. The other week, I stumbled across a Skyrim mod called Bard Hero. "My girlfriend had bought a Wii guitar controller and I wanted to know whether I could get it working in Skyrim,” Mern recalled. Of the previous bard mods that Bard Hero builds on, the most notable is Skyrim's Got Talent, by prolific Skyrim modder JaySerpa. "I haven't been involved in the creation of Bard Hero beyond being aware of it, granting permissions and testing it briefly.