A artificial intelligence came to stay. Innovations like ChatGPT and the creation of art from new technology are already realities. And this story gains another chapter. But this time around, there's one overriding complaint: Voice actors say more and more companies are inserting contractual clauses asking for permission to use their voices in AI programs.
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Video game voice actors allege that the new contractual clauses request the assignment of the rights of their voices to be used in artificial intelligence programs in order to create new voices synthetic.
The major concern of the category, which already suffers from the precariousness of its labor rights, is the replacement of the profession by the use of synthetic voices created through artificial intelligence.
Today, artificial intelligence produces new creations from a pre-existing database, which contains the voices of thousands of people. Recently, actress Emma Watson was the victim of the misuse of technology, which cloned her voice to read excerpts from the book “Mein Kampf”, by former German dictator Adolf Hitler.
Contract clauses and impact on art
Some voice actors claim that they are required to sign contracts with said clauses. Others, in turn, say that they signed without even knowing that they were ceding their rights to create voices. synthetic.
However, the fact is that some companies use the voices of dubbing actors without their express consent, which, for some, constitutes a lack of ethics.
This is the positioning of Steve Blum, dubbing of audiovisual content such as “Ben 10”, “Lilo & Stitch” and “Resident Evil”, in addition to games such as “Call of Duty”, “Naruto”, “Age of Empires III” and “Marvel: Ultimate Alliance”.
The questions surrounding what art is also keep popping up. For some voice actors and other performers, as much as the voice is similar to the human voice, it is still not the same as a real performance, practiced by other human beings.
Thus, some of them argue that it is not a type of art. However, as the use of technology seems to have no return, now the union of the category fights to make the consent of the voice actors in these contractual clauses be expressed.