The actor told an audience in London that AI was a “burning issue” for actors.

  • OhNoMoreLemmy
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    1 year ago

    It’s not copyright infringement. You can’t copyright a style, which is basically what a voice amounts to.

    This is something new. It’s a way of taking something that we always thought of as belonging to a person, and using it without their permission.

    At the moment the closest thing is trademark infringement, assuming you could trademark your personal identity (which you can’t). The harms are basically the same, deliberately passing off something cheap or dodgy as if it was associated with a particular entity. Doesn’t matter if the entity is Stephen fry or Pepsi Max.

    • gregorum@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      It is, as a matter of fact. When Fry recorded his voice for those audiobooks, they were copyrighted. Reproducing the contents of those works as they have is, arguably a violation of copyright.

      And when you compare Steven Frye to Pepsi Max, that’s a false equivalence, because you’re comparing a copyrighted material to a trademarked brand which are two different things.

      Still, to your point of theft, nobody is taking anything from anyone. They are using something without permission, and that still falls squarely as copyright infringement, not theft.

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        1 year ago

        Reproducing the contents of those works as they have is

        This did not occur.

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            1 year ago

            That’s not reproduction of content so isn’t a copyright violation. Not shouldn’t be. Literally right now is not.

            The whole reason people are so up in arms about this is that we do not currently have laws or even standards that accurately police this kind of thing.