Stealing might be a strong word, I agree. But because of this policy, Embark won’t need another recording session out of these actors. Designing the project to never pay the actors that could have worked with them again.

To back this term (“stealing”). I consider that the genAI technology as a whole has been built on the stolen work of the whole world. ChatGPT has been built upon thousands of Github projects without their consent, I suppose Sora, DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, etc have been made in the same way. Training data has been stolen.

Even though it’s a bit far-stretched, using this kind of technology to remove any future human collaboration is stealing to me.

• Stealing (copying) their voice (in the Little Mermaid way)
• Stealing their money (make profit with their unique trait in the future)
• Stealing the work of thousand if not million of people around the world through the genAI technology