https://www.molleindustria.org/blog/future-no-thanks-update-now-with-no-ai-generated-voices/

Here's the original blog post the dev made in case anybody wants to read it instead of the RPS article rewording and summarizing half of it.

This is something I've been thinking about with games and media in general. If I want something to sound/look uncanny and robotic, wouldn't a great way to do that be the uncanny robots we have? Especially if part of it is to parody or showcase the world we do live in. Personally I enjoy the thrill of making something myself but there are some uses for these things that I think can add to the art, albeit in very small careful ways

The ethics of it though yeah I'm not going to support using ecosystem destroyer 9000s in any amount

If it's really like he says, it's another case of misdirected rage, IMO.

People are fucking stupid pussies. There I said it