Robin Williams’ Daughter Speaks Out Against AI Recreations Of Actors’ Voices: “I Find It Personally Disturbing”::Robin Williams’ daughter speaks out against AI recreations of actors’ voices, explaining her own “disturbing” experiences with the controversial tech.
It sucks, but it is the price of selling one’s self to the public spotlight.
Much like internet culture has taken decades to develop some basic sense of civility, it will take a long time for these tools to normalize with a morality culture of some kind. I figure, the best course is always treat others like you want to be treated. Most people are not trying to hurt anyone, they just haven’t thought through the consequences of what they are doing.
What we really need in the short term is a path of least resistance to make AI characters and tools that provide an easier way to create projects, demonstrations, and art. It is the availability of media containing public figures that is primarily driving this kind of thing. If it was easier to find and use a digital alternative entity, I think most people would use it as an alternative.
One thing I have tried is to use an amalgamated creation of people that are accessible in the dataset, (PersonA:PersonB). If done well, the final results can be consistent and unrecognizable as either person.
foggy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It is troublesome but I feel like the problem is intractable.
query@lemmy.world 8 months ago
For personal use, but corporations trying to sell it could be fined 100% of their assets if need be.
bstix@feddit.dk 8 months ago
Proving it happening is going to be difficult…more difficult than telling Vanilla Ice from Queen/Bowie.
There is currently no way to copyright a voice. There is also no good definition of what a voice even is legally.
It has always been happening to some degree. Casters would cast someone who sound like that other person etc. Happens to music all the time. Tv shows have cover music that is soo close to the song it’s supposed to remind the viewer of but just isn’t technically. Voices are going to much more difficult, especially with AI spitting out audio of what it would have sounded like if a certain person had said it, but didn’t. It’ll be impossible.
This will be the death of voice acting.
foggy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m down with that.
But it won’t stop it from spreading like wildfire.
I envision websites that openly allow you to do stuff like this with fine print disclaimers about trying to profit off that content.
andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
I like this. I don’t mind the use itself for limited purposes, I just don’t think there should be any financial benefit to it.