Robin Williams’ Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Recreations Of Actors’ Voices: “I Find It Personally Disturbing”::Robin Williams’ daughter speaks out against AI recreations of actors’ voices, explaining her own “disturbing” experiences with the controversial tech.

  • @foggy
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    399 months ago

    It is troublesome but I feel like the problem is intractable.

    • @query
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      9 months ago

      For personal use, but corporations trying to profit off of it could be fined 100% of their assets if need be.

      • @foggy
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        79 months ago

        I’m down with that.

        But it won’t stop it from spreading like wildfire.

        I envision websites that openly allow you to do stuff like this with fine print disclaimers about trying to profit off that content.

      • @[email protected]
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        59 months ago

        Proving it happening is going to be difficult…more difficult than telling Vanilla Ice from Queen/Bowie.

        There is currently no way to copyright a voice. There is also no good definition of what a voice even is legally.

        It has always been happening to some degree. Casters would cast someone who sound like that other person etc. Happens to music all the time. Tv shows have cover music that is soo close to the song it’s supposed to remind the viewer of but just isn’t technically. Voices are going to much more difficult, especially with AI spitting out audio of what it would have sounded like if a certain person had said it, but didn’t. It’ll be impossible.

        This will be the death of voice acting.

          • @[email protected]
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            89 months ago

            Yeah, and as for the “there’s no way to tell”

            Well when somebody is selling shit like “Robin Williams Alexa Nest voice $19.99 GPS narration” or bullshit like that, it’ll be pretty obvious.

            A voice that sounds kinda “like Robin Williams” without being outright stated as such - or using his voice and others as a seed for AI generated output - might be a lot more difficult to pin down.

            US corporations are all salivating at how they can cut out workers using technology and make record profits, but it’ll be a quick turnaround from every other country full of sellers who don’t give a fuck about copyright undercutting them on the market. Once that happens, they’ll be clamoring for “better regulation” and it’ll be too late.

            • @Mudface
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              -29 months ago

              I never understood this, because who is going to bu

            • @Mudface
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              -29 months ago

              I never understood this, because who is going to bu

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          Well to the last, yes definitely… it’ll become worthless as a skill. Once you can make an AI that speaks any line perfectly you don’t need anyone special to do it… joe shmoe off the street would be just as good a ‘voice actor’ as the current professionals. There’s obviously skill in making the AI do that seamlessly but that’s a different job.

          Translation went through something similar. It used to be something you paid someone a lot of money for now you just type the sentence into your phone.

      • Andy
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        29 months ago

        I like this. I don’t mind the use itself for limited purposes, I just don’t think there should be any financial benefit to it.