I wouldn’t want my family to make decisions for me after I die, and I think that’s even more true for actors.
“Can we use your grandpa’s voice?”
“No.”
“For fifty bucks?”
“Sure, take it”
Comment on ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Used AI For A Dead Voice Actor’s Performance, With Permission
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months ago
With permission from the family. Not the owner of the voice, who can’t speak for themselves anymore, obviously.
Whilst I think most people feel like this is the one exceptional case where we will be okay with this, I feel like every exec is seeing it and saying, “So it is possible”.
Aielman15@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Stovetop@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I dunno, once you’re dead nothing else really matters anymore, does it? You’re not a person anymore, so why would your opinion matter? If my family can use my legacy to make money for themselves, I would just be happy knowing they’d be a bit better off once I’m gone. And if they choose to protect the right to use my voice/likeness after I’m gone, I’d prefer that they do so because of their own personal beliefs, not because they believe they have to do so for my sake.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It matters to society, in the same way funerary rituals aren’t for the dead, but for the living
Tempotown@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who would you want to make decisions for you when you die then?
Aielman15@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nobody. I died, leave me alone and ask one of the thousand actors out there who are still breathing.
DoomBot5@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Make a will.
AnonTwo@kbin.social 11 months ago
I feel like that question is for you and you alone, and not for actors in general. Personally I don't really see why I would be worried about this after I die (after all, I'm dead ), and if it helps my family a bit then it'd probably just make me rest easier if anything.
rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Well the person is dead anyway, it’s not like dead people care in any way.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 months ago
And we get into why everyone is striking. We’re all okay for normal use cases like this, but execs are like “we’ll pay you for 3 hours of work, then build a model and then do 180 hours of voice from that model. And you’ll say thank you for the opportunity”