We have all had a little bit of time to digest GTA 6‘s second trailer now, so naturally a fan’s had a go at re-creating it in GTA 5 for laughs. Cool. Good. Oh, wait, their in any other case fairly humorous video of Michael and Trevor filling in for Jason and Lucia options voices and a canopy of Scorching Collectively that sound suspiciously AI-ish.
Come on, the web in 2025. You do not have to maintain being like this.
Whether it is AI, that is a disgrace too, as a result of the bones of YouTuber Gu1maz’s GTA 5 model of GTA 6‘s second trailer are fairly properly executed in isolation. Every shot from Rockstar’s newest showcase of the meteor it is now set to drop on us in Could 2026 has been re-imagined with characters, places and props from Los Santos subbed in.
Michael’s taking part in Jason, Trevor in a costume stars as Lucia, and Jimmy De Santa takes on the position of his religious doppelganger Cal Hampton. There’s loads of bodily comedy, together with quite a few close-up photographs of Trevor twerking in entrance of Michael and failing to lie on high of him as a result of GTA 5’s animations aren’t fairly as much as GTA 6’s lofty requirements.
Then, you flip the sound on. Mike and Trev are delivering all of Jason and Lucia’s traces, however with a really flat supply that smacks of one thing AI-ish being afoot. As somebody who’s reported on a variety of mods that cleverly and subtly remix present in-game voice traces with a view to create new ones with out resorting to the very ethically shady observe of utilizing AI to ape an actor’s voice – one thing a variety of voice actors are rightly involved about and presents an existential risk to their livelihoods – I would like to provide Gu1maz a shred of the advantage of the doubt.
The Trevor Phillips cowl of The Pointer Sisters’ Scorching Collectively that kicks in about midway by their video makes that very onerous to do, although. Not solely does it sound so much like Trevor music covers you’ll be able to discover on YouTube that are forthright in admitting they’ve used AI, however it’s excruciating to take heed to in a means that sounds a bit too robotic to be humorous.
There’s nonetheless an opportunity this may not be AI, however even placing apart that huge asterisk momentarily, an actual particular person doing a Trevor impression, even the sort of completely horrible one I would ship if I have been to try this, would most likely have executed a greater job of aping the spectacular vocal vary required to hit these notes. Plus, it might be means funnier, in the best way that movies like this one would not be wherever close to as side-splitting if you happen to could not image the particular person on the opposite finish completely destroying their voice field to ship some true artwork.
However right here we’re. It is 2025, a time when many of the doubtlessly humorous belongings you discover on the web rightly or wrongly depart you questioning whether or not you ought to be laughing due to the very actual probability somebody’s executed one thing ethically dodgy to create them.
