I know people have been using AI of my voice to have fun, make my characters cuss or do other out of pocket things, etc," Vee. "This is all done without my consent and it does feel extremely weird. If you see clips out there, please know it’s without my permission."
For now, voice actors still have a choice to sign these contracts — assuming they realize what kind of devilish deal they're getting into in the first place. But it's undeniable that if this becomes a common practice, the pressure to sign these contracts will soon be overwhelming if it's a choice between getting paid work and nothing at all.
The monetary implications of that for voice actors are already worrying enough, but the potential for their voices to be applied to content they never consented to be a part of in the first place is even more disturbing. "What happens when we happily agree to a role, and, once in the booth, we see a particular line in the script that doesn't feel right, and express unambiguous discomfort? " asked voice actor Sarah Elmaleh, in her comments to. "What happens if the producer doesn't comprehend or accept the seriousness of that objection?"Normally, we are able to refuse to read the line, to prevent it from being used," Elmaleh added.
This is not necessary. We can synthetically create voices of any type and then use them as defaults for AI to 'steal voices' Their voice would coincidently sound similar. Voice actors will no longer be necessary. At all.
Ai stealing a physical quality you were gifted by your parents seems way more unethical than replacing skills people spent 4-8 years learning at a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars?
I always thought that fast food workers would loose their jobs first in future because of technologies. But ....