"Even though the controversial clip was quickly removed, it helped fuel protests from voice actors. Game development could also increasingly rely less on humans to bring in-game characters to life."
Just imagine the assistant who took your payment through a glass window once... decides to protest the kiosk manufacturer for taking the assistant job.
"Facing criticism, Microsoft explained that human involvement remains necessary to create games"
Yeah, what MS actually means is - MS could still layoff/FIRE 100s/1000s more tomorrow; but MS only need a handful of "humans" to oversee its Ai ecosystem and carry out tasks as needed but cutting off the extra fat. Mo' mo' money, right, MS?! 😏