Not looking forward to a future in which some media company owns a couple hundred voices whose "sounds similar to" halo cover 99.99% of human voices.

It's by far the most obvious outcome of this AI hate fueled rage on this topic. In 10 years the very same people complaining on twitter and here will be complaining that the big 3 music labels are taking down smaller musicians.

A voice isn't that unique in the grand scheme of things.

Yep I've had a similar thought. Heck, in my personal life I've been confused with so many people both celebrity and locals, that I just shrug at this point and move on with my life.

This reminds me of this article on a couple of people trying to make every "possible song" public domain.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxepzw/musicians-algorithmic...

It's not an impression, isn't a close match (and is a closer match to another actress!), isn't performing a song (or similar) in the same vocal style, isn't explicitly designed to parody the artist, wasn't advertised in a way that trades on the publicity rights of the artist, the voice of an actress is a smaller portion of their public image than the voice and style of a singer (a large factor considered in right of publicity cases), and a particular vocal performance in one film is much less protectable under right of publicity than a unique vocal style of a singer.

The Waits case is highly dissimilar, IMO. But tbf this isn't an area of law I'm expert in, and my knowledge of Right of Publicity law is mostly from law school, which was... a while back.