'Peppa Pig' owner Hasbro has stoked anger by requiring child actors on the animated series to sign over their voices to artificial intelligence.

Hasbro, the U.S. entertainment giant that acquired the Peppa Pig brand in 2019, is asking child actors on the animated series to sign over their voices to artificial intelligence under new contract terms.

  • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.netEnglish
    28·
    1 month ago

    Where the performer is a child, consent must be treated with the greatest of care. Children cannot provide fully informed legal consent and a parent or guardian’s approval should never be used as a blanket licence to capture, clone, train, or reuse a child’s voice indefinitely.

    Well put

    • Phoenixz@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      And in current USA, with current AI companies, that will likely be well ignored

  • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
    111·
    1 month ago

    just one season of a human cast training the machine would probably be enough to go ‘ai-only’ after that.

  • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    Peppa pig isn’t really great kid edutainment. It’s not the worst, but there’s so much better material out there.

    It’s awful they’re doing it. And if we boycott, I’m all for it.