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> (if we can ignore the ethics of using the actor's voice and the loss of work for the dubbing companies and actors) This is a shocking parenthetical.
by _moof 2y ago
> (if we can ignore the ethics of using the actor's voice and the loss of work for the dubbing companies and actors)
This is a shocking parenthetical.
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- roenxi 2y agoOptimistically, maybe we can replace the original actor with a synthetic voice as well. Then the issue is largely moot.
- CaptainFever 2y agoI realise that for dubbing (and voice actors in general), they have the least amount of "potential fallback legal protections" in the context of automation via generative AI: Translating? Machine translation is already well established. Copyright? IIRC the most popular voice generation company (ElevenLabs) uses copyright-safe models, where the sources for the base model were already consenting. Likeness? As you said, just use a synthetic voice. Replacement of jobs? Not really a legal issue. It's not much worse than self checkouts or driverless cars, for example. The only reason we're talking about it is because it affects white-collar workers and not blue-collar workers, and voice actors are more likely to be celebrities than cashiers, for example.