Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Jhex@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoAI models have been trained on copyright protected books illegally. Maybe the voice have not
Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks
Jhex@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoAI models have been trained on copyright protected books illegally. Maybe the voice have not
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
In this case the AI voices are reading the exact copyrighted material so the original author or rights holder must be contacted to secure the necessary rights and licensing agreements. There is no free use argument.
Now, if the voices have been trained on copy protected sources to create a likenesses (e.g. Scarlet Johansson) then there could be a lawsuit.