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Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by victorbjorklund on Friday March 29, 2024 @12:28PM (#39865953)
Why is replacing voice actors evil? How is it worse than replacing any other job using a machine/software?
Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by machomaster on Friday March 29, 2024 @04:02PM (#39868392)
The problem is not about replacing actors with technology. It is about replacing the particular actors with their computer-generated voice. It's about likeness-theft.
Re:OpenVoice: Versatile Instant Voice Cloning by buu700 on Friday March 29, 2024 @02:05PM (#39867138)
Agreed. I think the framing of "stealing" is a needlessly pessimistic prediction of how it might be used. If a person owns their own likeness, it would be logical to implement legal protections for AI impersonations of one's voice. I could imagine a popular voice actor scaling up their career by using AI for a first draft rendering of their part of a script and then selectively refining particular lines with more detailed prompts and/or recording them manually.

This raises a lot of complicated issues and questions, but the use case isn't inherently bad.